Re: [tlug] OT - what is yikes

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

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>    Josh> If you are looking for exciting words in English, Michal, I
>    Josh> also like "yowsa!" It can be used interchangeably with
>    Josh> "yikes!". :)
>
> Not in my dialect.  "Yowsa!" is pretty close to the Japanese "yatta!"
> (Which is almost an acronym for "You asked for it, you got it ---
> Toyota!", which means much the same thing.)

Toyota?  But aren't they the local equivalent to Microsoft?