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- From: ntetsuya@LAMAR.COLOSTATE.EDU
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
- Subject: Re: akemashite omedetou gozaimasu
- Message-ID: <320991@nttlab.ntt.JP>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 06:14:34 GMT
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- In article <9212300503.AA06777@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> you write:
- >Mina-sama, shinnen akemashite omedetou gozaimasu. Rainen wa niwatori no
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >toshi desu.
- >
- >Happy New Year to everyone. Next year is the Year of the Chicken in the
- >Buddhist "astrology", so may you all have a lot of pluck (and reasons to
- >cluck) in 1993.
- >
- >Jim Massey
- >Nova University
-
- Just for your refernce. You are supposed to say "akemashite..." first
- on New Year's Day, and then so do to anybody you meet for th efirst time in the
- new year.
-
- Before New Year's Day, you say;
- "Douzo yoi o-toshi wo (o-mukae kudasai)"
- good year have
- Please (have) a good year.
-
- And we say "tori doshi" for the Year of Chicken in Japanese.
-
-
-
- Sore dewa Jim-san, douzo yoi o-toshi wo!!
- :-)
-
- Tetsuya Nishimura
-