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In article <SANTOS.92Jul16131924@melon.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes:

   Mark>Mark Dyer		English: markd@tdd.sj.nec.com
   Mark>NEC America, Inc.	 $BF|K\8l(B: markd@csl.sj.nec.com
   Mark>
   Mark>When I lived in Japan, my friends called me $B5H30?M(B.($B$-$A$,$$$8$s(B)
   Mark>I'm still not sure if it was a complement or not.

   Uh, Mark, the word is "compliment" or "complement" ? 

My spelling skills are terrible, so when someone asks me something like
this I immediately assume that I goofed, but I looked the word up in a
dictionary (the American Heritage Dictionary) and, much to my amazement,
"complement" is the correct spelling. At least on this side of the
Atlantic. :-)


   They are starting to call me $B$X$s$J(B $B$,$$$8$s(B. I think it is because
   I try to understant them. I think it is a compliment, and don't care
   if they call me that way.

The true story with the $B$-$A$,$$$.$s(B (kichigaijin) nickname is that I
like word play jokes, and I came up with the word by combining
"ki chigai" and "gaijin" together as a joke. I would tell my friends that
I wasn't just a gaijin, I was a kichigaijin. Eventually somebody pointed
out that "kichi" could be written with the character $B5H(B which means
"good luck."

When I left Japan, some of the kids I had gotten to know bought me a
seal with the characters, $B5H30?M(B on it. Next time I get back over to
Japan I need to find a replacement ink pad, or maybe a whole new case.

Mark Dyer		English: markd@tdd.sj.nec.com
NEC America, Inc.	 $BF|K\8l(B: markd@csl.sj.nec.com
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