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Re: senseless gaikokugo T-shaatsu

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From: GLWARNER%SAMFORD.BITNET
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:52
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>I know that "senseless" English language T-shirts are common in Japan (my
>personal favorite, seen when I was last over there, was a cornucopia with
>the phrase "Flesh Fruits" plastered over a young woman's mammaries) but I
>have cringed sometimes at T-shirts or caps in the U.S. with kanji/kana all
>over them.  I wonder if it rattles the sensibilities of veterans to know that
>so many young people wear "kamikaze" T shirts without knowing it?

Or an even better one that a friend in World Languages told me about was
several elderly women returning from a tour of the orient with Kanji medallions
hanging around their neck proclaiming them to be "licensed prostitutes"!


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