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Old 01-08-2008, 01:49 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Many Male Japanese office workers greet each other with "oss", which is both a contraction of oyaho gozaimasu and designed to make them look tough in the eyes of their peers. Business is war, and they're not lemmings, they're corporate warriors, don'tcha know...?
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