Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>    Lyle> I'm no master of the Japanese language, but to my ears, the
>    Lyle> way some old men say it I would say the ending is "ja" and
>    Lyle> not "jai".  I've heard the "jai" ending too, but much more
>    Lyle> often the "ja" ending.
>
> You see it occasionally even in writing, in the form "no de wa".  They're
> all the same grammatically AFAIK.  I don't know what it means, though.
>
> I think Stuart's point may be that the "no jai" form is even more hougen
> than "no ja", and thus would be funnier?
>
> It's like, you know, totally!
Uh- oh... not again!  I have a really bad habit of making jokes that are 
out of context and simultaneously taking other jokes seriously... in 
short, I'm a completely hopeless case.  Thanks for pointing out the 
humor that whizzed over my head!

Lyle