Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Scott Robbins writes:

 > Now *MY* wife doesn't say hakase---she puts a ten ten after the ha and
 > stops at ka.  :-(

Oh, I think you're in good shape, then.  In my wife's house, "hakase"
is the equivalent of "Stephen John Turnbull" in my mother's.[1]  You know
you're in big trouble when the sound of your own name is the knell of
doom.[2]

Footnotes: 
[1]  My house?  Me, I'm just a renter.  It's like the old one about
the new simplified 1040:

    1.  How much did you make last year?                    _____
    2.  Send it to the address at the bottom of the form.

[2]  I'm quoting, presumably, SF or SF-oid fantasy.  Anybody have a
cite?