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In which I’m white
July 17, 2008, 4:38 pm
Filed under: being foreign

I went to get my hair cut today. The hairdress took one look at my hair and said, “oh, no!”. She ran her fingers through my hair, clucking disapprovingly.

“Cut off?” she said. “Very damagee. Cut off?”

“Anniyo,” I said. “Just trim.” My hair is damaged because you bleached the hell out of it, I thought.

“But your hair is so weak and thin!”

THAT’S BECAUSE I’M WHITE, ASSHOLE.


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I learned the word Anniyo from your blog. Well, not so much learned as in know-what-it-means, but learned as in know-it’s-appropriate-to-say-when-pissed-off. Good enough for me

Comment by Ben

‘anni’ means ‘no’

‘yo’ is the polite honorific attached the end of words.

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