On 11/27/2003 1:37 PM, cc wrote:

> "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message
> 
>>I suppose the next thing they are going to do is start greeting the
>>customers in English, or some combination of Japanese and English. That
>>will be even harder to get used to. "Harou-Konnichiwa!" Grrr.
> 
> That's like that in Taiwan. The first time I thought that was only for me
> (touristic greetings), then saw they did it for others. A person explained
> me that was decided by the combini chain owners and maybe next month they'll
> say "hola que tal" or "salamalekum".

Maybe they should change the greeting every week. They could give 
customers a discount if they could guess what language they were using 
and answer correctly.

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com