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10-27-2011, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by nicknackthumbtack View Post
"Do you and your boyfriend mishi mishi every night?"

If they are truly saying "meshi meshi," "eat" then it doesn't concern me, but why talk about eating so much?

And why is this phrase always accompanied by a fit of giggles?
I don't know where you're from, but I'd say a nontrivial number of American children know of at least one linguistic connection between "eating" and sex by the time they enter high school.

I'm really surprised to hear someone who is an English teacher not immediately think of this same thing when questioning why someone giggles at "do you and your boyfriend eat every night?"

I'm not making any comment about the "Japanese" though. みしみし strikes me as pretty meaningless. American kids obsessed with anime do the exact same thing (spout gibberish as if it meant something). I'd suspect there are a lot of Chinese kids who might do this, too.

Last edited by KyleGoetz : 10-27-2011 at 01:27 PM.
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