Re: Words

From: "Nik Taylor"

> Mike Adams wrote:
> > Anyone have words that are only used by their conculture/lingo? I know
> > there is others, such as Gaijin is not used by Japanese to mean
> > Japanese, or so I believe, but it is applied to only white/europeans
>
> Gaijin means "foreigner", "gai" = "outside, foreign", "jin" = "person".
Still, there are foreigners and then there are foreigners. Technically, a
Thai or a Chinese could be labelled "gaijin" in Japan, but the term is
normally applied to large hairy foul-smelling lumbering lummoxes with big
noses, strange, uncouth ways, and wads and wads of cash, i.e.
white/Europeans.

Kou