mad-dan@keepitloud.com (Mad Dan) said:

>Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<49v2ovcd03dtmsdqqcbn3g7kgqk5s752l5@4ax.com>...
>> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:04 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
>> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>> 
>> >Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I'm yet to progress to the um-ing and aw-ing in Japanese phase, so I
>> >> don't know if it naturally follows, but I know a couple of gaigin who
>> >> regularly point to the nose, rather than to the chest, to indicate
>> >> "self". To me it always looks like a forced gesture, but I've never
>> >> actually asked the people who do it if it's natural or not, just in
>> >> case they get offended or something. I'm no psychologist or whatever,
>> >> but I would think that it must be forced. What do you lot think?
>> >
>> >Wait till you see them bowing while talking on the phone...
>> 
>> <prolonged sucking of air through teeth> We don't pick up habits like
>> that.
>
>
><covers mouth with hand, giggles>

<takes a knee-wobbling chu-hai piss on the street
corner and says, "I haven't changed a :hic: bit.">


--
Bryan
gaijenesis - 
noun:   the event that is a beginning; a first part or stage 
of subsequent events of gaijinhood