Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "They" Date: 24 Sep 2025 02:34:50 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1089ge2$1fvl9$8@dont-email.me> <10a68ql$16tjt$1@dont-email.me> <68c6bbc5$0$402$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10a6rp4$1d082$5@dont-email.me> <2d9jplxvcn.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a6t8d$1d082$8@dont-email.me> <4cnjplxbgm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a8lmu$1q6g1$7@dont-email.me> <1s2mplx32v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <68cdb6b5$0$12931$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10alus7$57hc$1@news1.tnib.de> <68cebda5$0$3358$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10aod61$1jd5c$7@dont-email.me> <10aogfp$1jd5c$11@dont-email.me> <10ar1gj$27bne$1@dont-email.me> <10arr2t$2f2co$1@dont-email.me> <10atgog$2r9uf$1@dont-email.me> <10auhip$340it$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EqbqL2ZafdZ3B593gDUIcwgpPlxbP+XRmVq7Xwfb6Wx6Nxa2MR Cancel-Lock: sha1:p8R1m5XsEZcBNa9iZh8d7PmXmSE= sha256:E/MAoCrxFdbLKp3vAOTYHjVGgwvkVL6Ho+g8TFyLL3g= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75058 On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:23:53 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Jap is wrong slang from WW II. Proper term is Nihonjin or > human being of Nippon which is a more accurate name. But I am not going > to look up why we started calling the archipelago Japan. Maybe it was > the Chinese or Korean term. When I was a kid 'Nips' was also used, not too affectionately. My brother, who was quite a bit older than I, was in the USMC Air Wing in the Pacific. A family legend was after the war my mother bought some Christmas decorations. When my grandfather saw the 'Made in Japan' label he stomped them into shards. I was raised to not buy anything from Japan although that became impossible by the '80s. In the '90s my brother showed up in his Winnebago towing a Toyota Tercel. 'I never thought I'd buy a Jap car' he said with a sheepish grin. By the 2000s he and his wife were driving Coronas or Corrolas, I don't remember which. The Tercel had failed the CA smog test so he donated it to an organization that would ship it to the third world where it may still be happily polluting the atmosphere.