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Subject:
CULTURE : Writing in Reverse
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Steve Cavrak <[log in to unmask]>
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UVM Japan Program News and Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:38:09 -0500
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  Subject: Writing in Reverse

  Date:

  Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:41:22 GMT

  From:  [log in to unmask] (Michael Cash)

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  Newsgroups:   sci.lang.japan



  A few weeks ago in another thread I mentioned that

  trucks in Japan usually have their company names

  written from front to back and that sometimes names

  written with the English alphabet receive the same

  treatment.



  An example of that can be seen at:



  http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/backwards.jpg

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