On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:41:54 GMT, cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au  ...
>
>HiYa
>
>I'm sorry, I have a cold
>
>In article <bdodv202pe4@drn.newsguy.com>, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> 
>wrote:
>>On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 03:54:44 GMT, cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au  ...
>>>
>>>HiYa
>>>
>>>In article <bdoaa702g3i@drn.newsguy.com>, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> 
>>>wrote:
>>>>On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:11:04 GMT, cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au  ...
>>>>>
>>>>>HiYa
>>>>>
>>>>>In article <jrkufv89kpvbql84ldm6q06nnao1nkjrck@4ax.com>, Michael Cash 
>>>>><mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>>>>>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:24:22 +0900, Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson
>>>>>><knicolson@pobox.com> 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.
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>
>oh ... yeah, that ka ... so the oban is the same as in obasan?

errr, that's the joke ...


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>>>I'll look it up tonight in me Sony
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>>I don't think a PS2 is going to help much.
>>
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>its amazing the plugins one can get for these dictionarys, but I don't think
>its got a PS2 port ... maybe only serial (god, did anyone else have an IBM 
>PS2?)
>

No, but it amazed me that sony would call their game machine ps2, but
considering the standard of japanese business computing it shouldn't. I knew a
rather attractive girl who worked at the ps2 factory in Okazakistan (Aichi).
Nice girl but disgusting breath.

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