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Originally Posted by walrusbomb
I dont think we hijacked it. Nobody disinterested in Foreign Language would ever click a thread with this as a Topic. And the Topic, itself, lead us perfectly to this point. And civilized too, which is all any of us ever want on messageboards.
I'm a programmer. I work with many Chinese coders, so it couldn't be further from "self-taught."
I was born and raised in Honolulu, which explains how I came to speak nihongo.
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Considering that it started with a question on pronunciation, I don't think you guys hijacked it either. I speak and write no other language but English, but etymology and language in general has always fascinated me, and watching two people experienced in the language in question explain it to us laymen is particularly scintillating.