Always seemed a bit harsh to me. Gonz wrote: > Personally, I like Asahi beer.... > > > > On 6/4/08, Katrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My denji jisho (electronic dictionary) states that asahi means "the morning >> [rising] sun"... its >> written with the kanjis for morning (asa) and sun (hi) ^_- >> >> a lot of things is named after it, for example the asahi shinbun (shinbun = >> newspaper) >> >> ~Katrin >> >> >> Am 4 Jun 2008 um 13:10 hat frank theriault geschrieben: >> >> >> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Asahi is the name of a river, a lot of different things are named after >> > > it, much like say Washington. Washington Mutual Insurance has noting to >> > > do with the Washington Nationals< (baseball team), which has noting to >> > > do with Washington and Lee University, except for the name... >> > >> > I always thought Asahi meant "light" in Japanese. Not light as in >> > "less affected by gravity" but light as in "absence of dark". Ex >> > Oriente Lux and all. >> > >> > Of course I could be wrong. And I'm sure there is an Asahi River in >> Japan. >> > >> > BTW, speaking of the Washington Nationals, they have nothing to do >> > with baseball. Have you ever seen them play? >> > >> > cheers, >> > frank >> > -- >> > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> >> ****************************************************************************** >> Desert Rose >> Chris' & Katrin's X Japan homepage! Please visit it! >> http://www.desertrose.de >> >> >From now on I will try to live for you and for me. >> I will live with love...with dreams... >> and forever with tears.. >> >> ****************************************************************************** >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > >
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