[TAG] Japanese help

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Kat Tanaka wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:27:53AM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
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>>Kat Tanaka wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:15:20PM +0000, Pete Savage wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Kat,
>>>>Thank you for the reply.
>>>>
>>>>It's for my wife for christmas, she is very fond of the Japanese
>>>>culture, in particular Manga and Anime.  I wanted to write her almost
>>>>like a scroll that I could frame for her for christmas
>>>>
>>>>What would be most appropriate in this instance
>>>
>>>
>>>Eek! That's really sweet, but in a Japanese context it's even more 
>>>bizarre. Declarations of love like that are meant to be *private* in 
>>>Japan, so something that would be framed and on a wall... Aiee.
>>
>>At least he's not going for a tattoo :)
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> 
> 
> I'm not going there. I can't afford the bus ticket back.

Heh. I've been planning to geta tattoo of my son's name in Ogham. After 
8 years of research, I'm reasonably confident that what I've chosen *is* 
his name and not, say, "Price reduced for a limited time only" or some 
such.