"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> > "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:buhoh0$i7n6t$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de...
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> > > "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > > news:lKSOb.33587$VS4.1045591@bgtnsc04-> I think we are
> > > > (Good shot, Raj....Joto ney, an'ta?)
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> > > I see somebody learned their Japanese in Okinawa.
> > >
> > > Ex military? Because all foreigners in Okinawa are military, you know.
> >
> > Ex military yes but never near Okinawa.
> > I have been all the way from Sasebo to Hokkaido.
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> Interesting, because "Joto ney, an'ta" sounds exactly like what you would
> expect from an English speaker immitating the Japanese of an Okinawan
woman
> of a certain age...

Even more interesting,  "Joto ney, an'ta" sounds exactly like what you would
expect from an English speaker imitating the Japanese of an Kyushu woman,
said imitation being spot on, my haughty fellow.