[ExI] little puzzle

[Brent Allsop]

As Adrian pointed out "ouch" in japanese is 痛い, pronounced etai.

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
Japanese).

Traditional or older japanese won't use (オーケー), they are more likely to say
分りました
[わか分·り·ま·し·た]
pronounced Wakarimashia (formal)  wakata (less formal) Literal translation:
"I understand"




On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 4:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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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
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> *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
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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
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