On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:06:04PM +0900, Nick May wrote:
> keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> >Right. Verbalized, "ai-shiteru" means "I love you" and DoCoMo is using
> >that connection by placing i-mode's yellow i-logo in an ad, followed by
> >the letters "shiteru". It becomes kind of cute and connects i-mode with
> >love and also "I love i-mode". Seen the ad in Shibuya a lot.
>
>
> so
>
> L-mode verbalised is:
>
> ero-mode (for those hot dates....)
>
> or
>
> eru mode - my dictionary has this as referring to Eire....
>
> Eire mode?
Well, Eire is another name for Ireland of which the first kanji of the
popular Japanese writing of Ireland is AI which is Love. So it is all
about love really :)
Tom.
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Received on Tue Oct 24 15:08:21 2000