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A Japanese language question

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A Japanese language question

Postby Socratesabroad » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:00 pm

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Re: A Japanese language question

Postby Taro Toporific » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:36 pm

Socratesabroad wrote:..... what would you call that cash exchange?...


In various Japanese novels the phrase 'consolation money' is used the translation. The problem is those novels are set before 1960 so it sounds odd to our ears....so odd I remember many years later. I would use 'out of court settlement' as the more PC way of stating it.
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Postby Socratesabroad » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:40 pm

Thanks :)
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Postby kamome » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:40 am

Alimony?
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