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Greetings from J-List March 20, 2000

Peter Payne by Peter Payne
25 years ago
in Your Friend in Japan

Greetings from Japan, where a hamburger with a bun is a hamburger, but hamburger meat alone is a “hamburg.” Consequently, a hot dog with bun is a “frankfurter” but a dog by itself (say, on a stick) is just a “frankfurt.”

Japanese make some strange adaptations to English words. Just as Spanish and French can sound exotic to Americans, the Japanese love to pepper their daily lives with words from English. One word they like is “my” — it’s used in words like “my-car” (mai-kaa) (a privately owned car), my-home (mai-ho-mu) (a word that denotes owning your own house). Banks will advertise special rates for a “my-car loan.” Someone who does things his own way, at his own pace, is called “going my way” (goingu mai uee) while a person who is vague and unspecific is an “about” person (abauto na hito). New words are coined to reflect changing times, too — such as “barrier free, a word that describes living without barriers such as steep stairs that make it hard for elderly people to get along. Just in time” is another phrase that was born in Japan.

Today is the first day of Spring, and a holiday here in Japan. Winter didn’t go without a fight, though — today was one of the windiest I can remember. Japan is

We’ve got a great lineup of items for you tonight, including:

  • First, fresh stock of the excellent Taiwanese lovely Vivian Hsu nude photobooks, Venus and Angel, on the photobooks pages
  • Also on the photobook pages, great new photobooks including “The Nama-ashi” (bare-let fetish) and Costume & Lingerie (for the ultimate underwear-fan)
  • Even more stock of formerly sold-out photobooks, including a few copies of Impressive by Fubuki Akira, and Ozawa Madoka’s lovely Fairy on the Rough Sketch
  • For fans the lovely idol group Morning Musume, we’ve got their newest #1 music video, Koi no Dance Site, as well as the wonderful high-quality Morning Musume collectible trading cards (see the idol or card pages)
  • Also for idol fans, we’ve got three lovely new idol videos — Kojima Kanako, Anzai Hiroko and the delicious Sunouchi Mihoko
  • For our adult video customers, there are two excellent new videos on page 1 of the video catalog, including “The Girl Sentenced to have Semen on her Face”
  • The hot new Gal’s Dee, featuring the dynamite Kusanagi Jun (95 cm bust, G cup), is on Magazine page 1
  • Lower prices on tons of manga, dojinshi and magazines (well, maybe not tons, but at least 100 kg of them)

Remember that J-List regularly puts lower priced and close out magazines, photobooks and other items on higher-numbered pages (magazine page 3, photobook page 2, etc.), so please check regularly for some great bargains. As part of tonight’s update, we’ve gone through and lowered the prices of two dozen magazines, manga and dojinshi, too, so please check out the nice items.

That’s all for tonight. See you on the web!

Tags: foodmanga

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