Re: Koujien "kakegoe"

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:14:37 GMT, Sean Holland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted the following:

>  I quit a song-writing newsgroup because of the vile flame wars and
>nastiness going on in it (worse even than ever things got here with BB and
>TT), so reading the above made me smile. I had to check back and closely
>examine ueshiba's post to see what could have made Chris think (or to say he
>thought) that he had offended ueshiba. Pretty hard to detect.

Well, I don't know if I actually offended him or not.  But I thought
he seemed a little upset that I was making these generalizations about
Japanese with my imperfect knowledge of the language.

All I meant to say was that in my experience, "kakegoe" are not that
long.  I don't think I'm the only one with this opinion, because when
I was asking the people in my office about "yattokomakase", several of
them commented that it was "nagai" or "nagasugiru" (even without the
"no yoiyamakase" on the end).

-Chris