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It is interesting how the language is different for men and women and how they would speak it. I wonder how many other languages are like that.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 14, 2016 at 5:31 AM
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I love the hard hat with its "special markings".
Even after thirty years gone by, when anything Japanese comes up in conversation, Son #1 has to give me an example of the male talk. He's really good at "forcing it out from somewhere inside him." It's from the years his station base was Yokosuka.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 14, 2016 at 1:07 AM
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Nautikos
I always had problems with gender specific words in Spanish when I was first learning, but it sounds like a much more complicated issue in what you were dealing with!! I prefer the stickier rice myself...but that's how my rice cooker does it anyway! I've switched almost exclusively to brown rice. These posts have so much to them, I hope they go on and on. Did they have pink helmets for the ladies?
posted by
Krisles
on January 13, 2016 at 9:28 PM
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There are so many delightful and interestingly educational elements to this story that I can't choose a favorite yet! I think I'll go with the translation of the name on the hardhat, and my guess at their pronunciation! Oh, like the pic, also!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on January 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM
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I'll ask my DIL what that is called - the swirling of tea. What a great experience for you! And yes, I would call that hat a noggin-saver!!
posted by
adnohr
on January 13, 2016 at 8:23 PM
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Nautikos
I wouldn't have dipped my hand in that bowl of rice thinking had the men before me just been to the loo??LOL Great stories.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 13, 2016 at 3:01 PM
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You've stirred up a really multicultural soup here, the Japanese,
the Canadian mix, and the ship's. I really like it, nicely savory with a dash of salt. The hat is a wonderful souvenir...
posted by
Pat_B
on January 13, 2016 at 2:27 PM
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definitely a totally different culture to what wwe are used to.
but I must say we had a laugh at a greek friend of numb nuts who arrived late one rainy afternoon because he said his" wippers didn't work". After some head scratching we realized he meant windshield wipers.
posted by
Kabu
on January 13, 2016 at 1:52 PM
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Yes that was a bit embarrassing Naut. I suppose if you had known beforehand you could have rubbed out the female preference. Not that it mattered it gave the guys something to chuckle over.Quite a souvenir your hard hat. You should be in the picture gallery wearing this one. 
posted by
C_C_T
on January 13, 2016 at 10:15 AM
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