Re: tlug: Re: Naiibu and other naivetes

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kei Furuuchi <kfur@example.com>
> 
> 
> >In Japanese, the word "(Naiibu)Naive" means something like sensitive while
> >in English the same word means something like clueless.
> 
> 
> I've always been kind of intrigued by this one.  Does anyone know who is to
> blame for it?  What astonishingly misguided dictionary writer or other naive
> person :-) is responsible for popularizing this awful misinterpretation?  I
> even once saw a brand of soap or shampoo (can't remember which now) called
> Naive, which made me wonder what would happen to me if I tried it :-)
> Needless to say, I didn't.

we have naive hand soap in the bathroom here at PHT.  I've used it.  Draw
your own conclusions as to the results :)

> 
> Then there's the fly fishing vest I bought at a sidewalk shop in Yurakucho
> one time.  Only 3,000 yen and a pretty nice vest, the only problem being the
> brand name, which is in inch-high letters on a big patch that I removed from
> the front: Geek :-)  I'll scan that patch some time and display it on my
> home page :-)

If you'd looked a little farther back in the store's rack of vests, you
would probably have also found the 'nerd', 'idiot', and 'imbecile' models
- a bit more expensive, but they have more pockets for band-aids, or so
I'm led to believe :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
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