[lit-ideas] Re: Guten Rutsch!

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:54:44 -0800

On Dec 31, 2011, at 6:13 PM, John McCreery wrote:

> Here in Yokohama, the countdown was eleven hours ago. The temple bells have 
> rung, the foghorns have sounded, the last toasts been drunk. It's time to go 
> out and greet the neighbors with akemashite, ometedou gozaimasu, freely 
> translatable as "congratulations, we made it."
> 
And what is Japanese for "don't count your chickens"?

Happy next bit to everyone.

David Ritchie,
still on this earth in
Portland, Oregon

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