Re: Gaigins pointing-to-the-nose-watashi thing
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:11:11 +0900, Bryan Parker
<puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:
>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.">
JR called. They want you to take responsibility for that
newspaper-covered ocean of puke you left on the train.
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