So if you’ve never had the opportunity to lose a wallet in Japan, I have a funny story.https://twitter.com/mrkirkland/status/949606142153338880 …
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Relevantly: I’m subject to arrest without this document. So spurning the opportunity to do the obvious thing and tell the cops, he walks around for 30 minutes until he finds a white guy. The white guy, a tourist, is incredulous. “As if I’d know random American.”
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The white guy being visited by his foreign friend, though, lived in Ogaki. So of course I was in his address book.
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Thus begins my first and only conversation in Chinese, a language that I speak precisely one word in. Luckily for me, the three words of Japanese the Chinese gentleman understood included “foreigner registration card”, and once he said that I looked for mine and freaked.”
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So here’s a problem for you: how do you communicate “Meet me at the X” without a common language. Answer: “McDonalds?” “McDonalds? MCDONALDS.” “McDonalds shi shi.”
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