From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...126.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-09-02T16:31:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20691] Re: The Rabbit

Chris Moore <thegrandbrie@softhome.net> wrote:
:> : perhaps 'Ne' is more appropirate in this case, ne?
:>
:> "Are you saying 'ne' to that old newsgroup?"
:>
:> or maybe
:>
:> "You wouldn't get vary far in life not saying 'ne'."
:>

: okay, nobody got it that replied so here's why... the monty python spelling 
: would be Ni, but this is the Japanese book, and in japanese "ne" is the 
: equivilent of our own Canadian "eh".  Thus a samurai could be called a knight 
: who says "ne".   Whatever....

wakarimashita, kedo omoshirokunai desu to omotta.  kaerite, ne?

I'd like to think of a samuri that says "ni" or "a preposition indicating
location or direction of motion!!"

Don't try to out-wierd me, buster, I get wierder things with breakfast.

Maybe you should establish some kind of equivalence between japanese 'ne'
and british 'ni' (which is a nonsense word).