Path: news.ccsf.jp!news.tomockey.net!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!eyrie.org!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gaigin - Echo Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 30 Sender: scjmmod@haven.eyrie.org Message-ID: References: <5b69154c-7712-485f-a99f-445cb219585e@googlegroups.com> <980dafde-91dc-4e18-b305-f4d8bf5540f7@googlegroups.com> <4ae2f0ba-480e-4889-89ca-0126d4463483@googlegroups.com> <1226009777.539711082.143980.emailTHIS-fractalicious.com@news.individual.net> <2016006005.539758047.867513.emailTHIS-fractalicious.com@news.individual.net> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1521505198 16022 166.84.7.159 (20 Mar 2018 00:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/2.4.1-20161224 ("Daill") (UNIX) (Linux/4.9.0-6-amd64 (x86_64)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170802 Wasabi wrote: > "John W." wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 10:48:10 PM UTC-6, Band Beyond You > > wrote: > >> Band Beyond You wrote: > >> > Michael Cash wrote: > >> >> I do wish this place hadn't died..... > >> >> > >> > > >> > Echo that, gaigin-sama-tachi... > >> > >> I miss the Michael Cash offers to ride through Tokyo in his truck... > > > > Wait, he offered to give you a ride in his truck? You sure he wasn't > > talking some hentai stuff? > I think it was from one of Michael's posts that I learned that men > outside Tokyo never use "watashi", just "ore" or "boku", but I couldn't > help wondering if maybe that was just truck drivers. Not that I could see; never heard a guy outside of Tokyo use "watashi". One of my old buchou use 'watakushi' when he wanted to brow-beat someon. > You've got to love a nation that has come up with at least six words for > "I" but then doesn't bother using any of them most of the time. Or "you" Mike