[ExI] little puzzle

[William Flynn Wallace]

Very interesting - Japanese.  I don't know if I could have gone further in
life without knowing these things.   bill w

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:10 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> As Adrian pointed out "ouch" in japanese is 痛い, pronounced etai.
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> And while it is true young Japanese love to use foreign words and say OK,
> especially if they are in the presence of foreigners.  And it is not
> spelled roman letters: OK.  It is spelled in the katakana alphabet (オーケー)
> reserved for foreign words, and looks different from the same letters in
> the hiragana alphabet they use for true japanese words.  In other words, if
> they shape the letters in katakana, it specifically seys (this is not
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> Traditional or older japanese won't use (オーケー), they are more likely to
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> 分りました
> [わか分·り·ま·し·た]
> pronounced Wakarimashia (formal)  wakata (less formal) Literal
> translation: "I understand"
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>> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 30 September, 2023 3:06 PM
>> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] little puzzle
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>> >…Spike got it - okay.   I think ADrian's answer of 'ouch' might fit
>> too. But I'll bet OK is said far more often.   In a medical setting Ok is
>> added to just about every question ,even though it's not a question:
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>> 'We're just going to take one leg off, OK?'  (try saying 'NO' and see
>> them fluster - the 'choice' you are given is almost always illusory).
>>    bill w
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>> I had an advantage Billw: I live in an area where everybody is from
>> somewhere.  I have overheard conversations in Spanish, in German, in
>> American redneck, Ukrainian, Russian, every known African language,
>> Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Vietnamese and even French (we try to keep
>> that one quiet.)  In every one of those languages, I hear them come to OK,
>> liberally interspersed in a discussion and almost always at the end of a
>> phone conversation.  That means the same in every language: I agree, good,
>> let’s do that.  Every language on the planet, every conference, every
>> negotiation, everything needs that term and they have all borrowed it from
>> whoever invented it.  Who or where was that?
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>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 1:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:36 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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>> What word, the same in all languages (I think), is likely the most
>> uttered word worldwide?
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