Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.ksi.ne.jp!Q.T.Honey!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Back from holiday... Date: 29 Jun 2003 21:22:58 -0700 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p-225.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 4.20 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:1642 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 03:54:44 GMT, cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au ... > >HiYa > >In article , Brett Robson >wrote: >>On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:11:04 GMT, cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au ... >>> >>>HiYa >>> >>>In article , Michael Cash >>> wrote: >>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:24:22 +0900, Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson >>>> belched the alphabet and kept on going with: >>>> >>>>>...with five tonnes of omiyage (and she forgot a few people) and ten >>>>>tonnes of hotel soap and tea and sugar and crap. Is it a common >>>>>Japanese trait to ensure the hotel room is stripped clean of all >>>>>available freebies? >>>> >>>>This is a result of a process called $B$*$P$s2(B which is happening to >>>>your wife. Get used to it. >>>> >>> >>> >>>could you post that in romanji as well? >>> >>>thanks :-) >>> >> >>oban (hiragana) ka (the kanji that is flower without grass on top) > >kewl, its just come through as unreadable on this NG reader >so its obanka with the oban being in hiragana, and last part being the kanji >for "hana" no, hana without the grass radical on top, meaning -ization, eg kokusai-ka, the process whereby Japanese pretend to become international. >I'll look it up tonight in me Sony I don't think a PS2 is going to help much. --- "he [John Ashcroft] deliberately left Jesus out of office prayers to avoid offending non-Christians." - Ben Shapiro 27/2/2003