>>>Ohio, Charles. Agenki deska?
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>>Michigan gozaimasu ! Ainiku Nihongo o hanimasen.
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>Can't say I understand that but I noticed that you're in Ohio and I was told that that means "good morning".
Yeah, Ohayo gozaimasu is good morning and Michigan Gozaimasu was always my instinctive bad-joke reply <s> The rest just means "Unfortunately, I do not speak Japanese?
Not sure about any connection between arigato and obligado, but of the course the Portugese were the first westerners to have serious contact with Japan.
There are a number of Japansese words that are the same as Turkish wich may show common early Mongol origins. I was once told the closest langauges to Turkish linguistically were Hungarian, Finnish and Japanese ( the first three being Indo-Urdik languages )
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>Also curious that "origato" is so close to the portugese "obligado".
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Charles Hankey
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