Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Legion Magazine, Vol. 33: August, 1942
When you get ashore you'll want to understand something of the language that the conquered Nipponese use. If you don't know it how are you going to have them step lively, get out of the way, carry your gun or police up when you've thrown your cigarette butts and what-have-you on the steps of the city hall? Early in June Chester A. Gile of Min neapolis sent us a manuscript which gave a phonetic representation of the language the Japanese use in some of their every day dealings with one another. It oc curred to us that the only language an American would want to try out on a Jap would be the tough kind a mule skinner uses in dealing with a jughead. But we get out a family magazine, and besides the Japs have only one word of profanity, (elsewhere on this page we let you in on it.) Anyway, we sent Mr. Gile a list of expressions Americans in uniform might be wanting to use when they got to Yokohama or Tokyo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
