Frank, at 14:51 on Sat, Feb 25 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

FM> Do itashi mashite. Domo arigato gozaimasu.

BG> Dunno what the first sentence means, but AFA the second is 
BG> concerned, as I said before, you're most welcome.  |-)

FM> Don't mention it.

All right, I won't then.

FM> Sayonara, Fu-ra-n-ku.

BG> Phonetic Japanese!  Whatever will they think of next?

FM> The Katakana and Hiragana alphabets are basically phonetic, with 2-character 
FM> (consonant+vowel) representation in the Roman alphabet except for the 
FM> vowels and the single letter 'n'. My name in Japanese is the four symbols 
FM> equivalent to what I wrote above. Surname is Ma-ru-ko-mu.

Perfect!  Living so close to the Gold Coast, the above information is truly
invaluable.  |-)

Regards, Bill
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