只今 (tadaima): 'Hello, I'm back'. Used when one returns home whether it be after a few hours, days, months or years.
Posted by Joe at August 29, 2003 10:28 PMexcellent. I can use that in the sushi bar, since I'm frequently back. Pity the majority of staff are chinese, but at least I'll know what I'm saying.
Posted by: Lisa at August 30, 2003 12:04 AMKeep it up, Joe, and I'll have a better shot at some of these jobs I've been interviewing for!
Posted by: DJ at August 30, 2003 03:43 AMLisa if they reply "o-ka-e-ri-na-sai" (hyphens in there for easy pronunciation) you know you've said it properly and they consider you 'back home' as well i.e. very much a _home_ thing.
There won't be too many more Japanese lessons even though it's all around me now!
Posted by: Joe at August 30, 2003 11:08 AMyou back then?
Posted by: Lisa at September 1, 2003 01:04 AMTadaima!
Posted by: Joe at September 1, 2003 10:29 AMOkaerinasai!
Posted by: DJ at September 3, 2003 11:27 AMJust a flash from my step-brother's computer in Ohio to say that the characters show up as rectangles.
Not that it's an Ohio thing: another of my friends can see them just fine.
Posted by: DJ at September 12, 2003 09:52 PMI think (though I'm not sure) it is a setting problem on the user side. If the user doesn't have his/her Operating System (or possibly browser) set up to recognise double-byte characters ... well they're cooked.
Posted by: Joe at September 14, 2003 10:35 PMIndeed. In fact, when I accessed the page from my father's machine, it started downloading the fonts without so much as a by-your-leave.
I put an end to it, given his 28k connection ...
It's interesting that IE/Win98 displays the characters as rectangles in this situation, rather than ??? or single-byte mojibake madness.
Posted by: DJ at September 18, 2003 10:43 AMGlad we got that cleared up. I'll tell everyone the same if I get asked.
Posted by: Joe at September 18, 2003 01:06 PM