In Kyoto, of course, they are more polite and don't say "no" at all, just pause for a long time and say nothing until you get embarrassed and ask a different question, or leave.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Here also are huge men having horns four feet long
At the start of June, my father comes to visit. I plan to take him to a sumo match. They are big folk, and if you would believe, it is all based on a diet of enormous quantities of cabbage soup. The all-you-can-eat restaurants frequently have signs saying "No Sumo" (or more literally, "Sumo Wrestlers are Politely Requested to Not Dine Here, Polite-Modifier(onegaishimas)", with a little cartoon of a man in a uniform with his hands crossed in the universal, "Sorry but no".
In Kyoto, of course, they are more polite and don't say "no" at all, just pause for a long time and say nothing until you get embarrassed and ask a different question, or leave.
In Kyoto, of course, they are more polite and don't say "no" at all, just pause for a long time and say nothing until you get embarrassed and ask a different question, or leave.
