On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:25:56 GMT, "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:



>Chill out Jeff.
>My comment was the relationship between "gaikokujin" and "English".
>No one can deny that in practice English is the defacto Global language.
>But there are people who disagree, and feel that French, Spanish should
>be the "global language".
>At the expense of being redundant, 外国人 includes plenty of people
>from African and South American countries, who do not speak English.
>So...perhaps the gaikokujin in the definition of this NG ought to be
>corrected.

Chill out yourself. Paul's comment was meant to make fun of a
stereotyped perception many Japanese hold regarding gaigins.






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