Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<49v2ovcd03dtmsdqqcbn3g7kgqk5s752l5@4ax.com>...
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:04 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
> 
> >Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm yet to progress to the um-ing and aw-ing in Japanese phase, so I
> >> don't know if it naturally follows, but I know a couple of gaigin who
> >> regularly point to the nose, rather than to the chest, to indicate
> >> "self". To me it always looks like a forced gesture, but I've never
> >> actually asked the people who do it if it's natural or not, just in
> >> case they get offended or something. I'm no psychologist or whatever,
> >> but I would think that it must be forced. What do you lot think?
> >
> >Wait till you see them bowing while talking on the phone...
> 
> <prolonged sucking of air through teeth> We don't pick up habits like
> that.


<covers mouth with hand, giggles>