"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
news:bc11i101bkf@drn.newsguy.com...
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 19:41:27 +0900, "Ryan  ...
> Possibly insecure. However if we accept his version he was involved.

Yes, if we accept his version: Some random gaigin starts speaking English to
his children in front of O'Neal in order to impress him about how ??? he is,
where ??? is some quality that I can't fathom. It seems to me that the
language patterns one establishes with one's children develop over time, and
don't change too readily. So whether our anonymous gaigin thought he was the
cat's pajamas for speaking English to his sproglings or not, it seems highly
unlikely that it could have been for O'Neal's benefit that he was doing so.

> >O'Neil just needs to learn better pantomime, and he'll be fine. For
> >instance, speaking of convenience stores, the other day I managed to
> >pantomime, "whatever sauce you stick in those sandwiches, don't put it in
> >mine anymore. The last sandwich I ate here gave me the shits something
> >awful."
>
> How do yo pantomine (in Kansai-ben) "See this giant box that weighs
20kilos and
> contains 2 million yens worth of communication equipment? And the takyubin
pay
> at the other end sticker here with the toe-key-oh address? Call the black
cat
> people with the green trucks and they will take it away"?

Piece of cake. You just have to break down the idea into its component
parts:

This is my component.
This is you.

This is my component getting broken.
This is you being abused with a broom handle.

This is my component in a lovely strong box.
This is my component being treated with great care by a black cat.
This is you not being abused with a broom handle.

See, it's quite simple once you get used to it. You'll never have to speak
another word of ying-yong again!

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom