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- From: anil@CS.TITECH.AC.jp
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
- Subject: Re: Portuguese
- Message-ID: <320769@nttlab.ntt.JP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:02:47 GMT
- Sender: daemon@nttlab.ntt.JP
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- On Tue, 22 Dec 1992, Peter Yamamoto wrote:
-
- > In article <9212211229.AA14784@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> you write:
- > > "Oi Naomi"
- > > I'm a brazilian and I want to know if I could e-mail to you
- > >too.
- > > MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
- >
- > "Oi ..."!?!
- > That's a highly impolite greeting.
- > I am not Japanese, but still, it shocked me to read this!
- > Peter
-
- Well in Brazil, it is not quite the same (-; His "Oi" was Portugese
- not Japanese.
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- No it quite definitely was not a Portugese "Oi": it was quite plainly
- a BRAZALLIAN "Oi"
-
- Anil
- PS I cannot imagine why anyone should get upset over a small "Oi" or two,
- unless you are the one being oied at.
-