On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:18:40 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

Apparently there are some things that
can't be said in Japanese as each year I overhear a conversation or two that
( to me ) sounds like, "yamanashi fugiwama leader shy makidori" g and I
get a chuckle from it. I've seen a couple Japanese fishing magazines and
they are a mixture of those cool characters with some English words throw in
too ... kinda weird, really

Japanese has a lot of borrowed words, from Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, English,
etc. The 'cool' characters (kanji) are actually derived from Chinese characters.
FWIW
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Charlie Choc
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