Hi

In article <gdpvs0$e5n$8@news.stanford.edu>, mtfester@netscape.net wrote:
>obakesan <pellicleundies@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> In article
> <3d4d4b28-16b2-410f-95ce-5cb933393ece@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Declan
> Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >On Oct 23, 8:26=A0pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> obakesan wrote:
>
>> >> > so many things come to mind here
>> >
>> >Please specify :-)
>
>> ok ... things like:
>
>> - foreigners can't speak Nihongo, so I'll talk to the Nihonjin who came in 
>> with him
>
>I had a conversation with someone (in Japanese) that went like
>
>"Sorry, we don't speak English"
>

>We're due for a long, useless thread.
>

I was walking down the street in Aoyama one day and there was a russian fellow 
asking for directions (in Japanese). This (Japanese) guy was badly trying to 
give him directions in In-gu-ri-shu (complete with pauses while he was stuck 
for words like "station" and "turn refuto") so I wandered up to them (and not 
speaking any Russian apart from "da") said to the Russian guy where the 
station was and told the jap guy "he's Russian, he doesn't speak Japanese"

to bring this back onto topic (useless threads), just where is Eric these 
days? How come the place is so dead? I feel like we're having a meeting in an 
abandoned warehouse.


See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer Motorcyclist and dingbat
blog: http://cjeastwd.blogspot.com/

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