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[trinityvixen]

Have I ranted about the Japanese guy who sits behind me yet? No? Excellent.

RAAAAAAANT!!!!

Seriously, this guy is friendly, nice, hard-working, and never a bother even though we sit chair-to-chair at our desks. The problem is that he is constantly muttering (and swearing) to himself in Japanese. And it's not even very complicated Japanese--this is the kind of stuff you could pick up from a few episodes of Bebop, for crying out loud. You don't have to be a fanboy to decipher it, is all I'm saying. And it's distracting because I do understand it, but I have to think about it first. And aaaaah!!

Why not just tell him to stop, you say? Because I firmly believe he has no idea he's even doing it. He sounds so quizzical half the time I'm certain he has no filter for his brain that lets him know he's speaking aloud. Very annoying and weeeeeird.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: Good point.

Then again, it's hard to mistake what "Shimatta!" means the way he says it.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

When I was in Brazil I got into the habit of saying whatever popped into my head in public because almost no one there speaks English, and I was only there for a week. The temptation of thinking no one understands you is a powerful one to resist.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I guess so. He has another guy in the lab who speaks Japanese to shoot rapid fire Japanese at. He can mutter the easy stuff to himself.