Word: konnichi
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Gladiola Campos, an effervescent sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, found herself outside a Los Angeles hotel the other day handing leaflets to a busload of Japanese tourists. "Konnichi-wa," she greeted each one with a little bow. "Good day." The flyers urged the visitors to boycott the New Otani Hotel, which has been fighting a three-year union-organizing effort by its mostly Latino employees. And to reinforce the message, as soon as the tour bus closed its door, Campos and four other college students hopped inside a van and tailed it along the freeway...
...language," says Jill McKee, a college teacher whose son Robert is in second grade. "He's exposed to another way of doing things." Tokyo-born Sumiko Limbocker, the second-grade techer, adds with a laugh, "When the children meet me in the supermarket, they bow and say, 'Konnichi-wa' ((Hello...
...Good day" in Japanese is Konnichi wa (literal translation: "As for today . . ."). Another idiom: to say "I want whiskey," Japanese observe politely Toki-doki uisuki ga hoshii desu ("Now and then whiskey is desirable...
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