Hey Laura, I was stationed in Japan when I was in the service (Coast Guard) for a year. We got a list like this but since it was 1981 the sayings were more like "Can you please take me this address?" and "Excuse me, but I need a bathroom" or "My tractor seems to have caught my pants on fire and I need some water" . . .All right I made that last one up, but you get the idea. I would say this book is circa 1944 to 1947. Peace, out.
My brother collects WWII memorabilia, so I'm sending it to him.
BTW, do you REMEMBER how to say those things? All I can do in Japanese is count to ten. I took an Akido class once and we had to do pushups on our knuckles and had to stay down there 'til we counted to ten. Needless to say, I learned fast. I hate pushups.
My big claim to fame: I can count to ten in 5 languages. Whoo.
Ichy nee sun shee go. .. Laura, I still have this list but it is back in New York. Its an old ditto copy, I would love to send it to you. Try to remind me in August! :-) Gern
All the Japanese you'll ever need to know.
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Hey Laura,
I was stationed in Japan when I was in the service (Coast Guard) for a year. We got a list like this but since it was 1981 the sayings were more like "Can you please take me this address?" and "Excuse me, but I need a bathroom" or "My tractor seems to have caught my pants on fire and I need some water" . . .All right I made that last one up, but you get the idea. I would say this book is circa 1944 to 1947.
Peace, out.
Bingo!! I'll post the cover of the book in a sec.
My brother collects WWII memorabilia, so I'm sending it to him.
BTW, do you REMEMBER how to say those things? All I can do in Japanese is count to ten. I took an Akido class once and we had to do pushups on our knuckles and had to stay down there 'til we counted to ten. Needless to say, I learned fast. I hate pushups.
My big claim to fame: I can count to ten in 5 languages. Whoo.
Ichy nee sun shee go. ..
Laura, I still have this list but it is back in New York. Its an old ditto copy, I would love to send it to you.
Try to remind me in August! :-)
Gern
Ditto...August...gotcha. (yeah, right. Like I'm gonna remember THAT! 8^P)
oops. that sounded bitchy. what I meant was that I have A.D.D. -- I can hardly remember what I have to do next week!!
Love you Laura....you are a polite well brought up young lady!
Awww...thank you.
*blushes in all the wrong places*
Hey Dee--didja get the email I sent you last week?
Itchy Bong-Bong Nee-wah!
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