Friday foolishness: foreign words
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Sep 15 07:34:45 UTC 2000
Danger of earthquake and/or avalanche?
Warning: no comfort stations on this road?
larry
At 3:17 PM -0400 9/15/00, Sallie Lemons wrote:
>Just guessing: It's a long way down if you jump????
>
>Jessie Emerson wrote:
>
>> This question doesn't involve words on signs, but I've been puzzled by it
>> for years, so I'll ask you folks:
>>
>> In Japan in about 1991/2, I was driving to a ryokan located off of a
>> mountain road. There was a sign that looked like a man jumping up and down.
>> Both feet appeared to be off the ground, and there were little "movement"
>> slashes by his hands and feet.
>>
>> Anybody know?
>>
>> Jessie Emerson
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