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Message no. 1
From: Bull bull@***********.com
Subject: Metas in Japan
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 16:37:35 -0400
Quick question...

Is there a Japanese word used to describe Metahumans in
Shadowrun? Something a tad bit, derogatory? I think there was, in the Sam
Verner novels, but I can't remember.

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Message no. 2
From: David Yellope dyellope@*****.gis.net
Subject: Metas in Japan
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:57:36 GMT
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 16:37:35 -0400, you wrote:

>Quick question...
>
>Is there a Japanese word used to describe Metahumans in
>Shadowrun? Something a tad bit, derogatory? I think there was, in the Sam
>Verner novels, but I can't remember.
>
>Bull

Kawaruhito., Meaning "Changed" I believe (or subhuman)
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Message no. 3
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Metas in Japan
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:41:34 +0200
According to Bull, at 16:37 on 9 Oct 99, the word on
the street was...

> Is there a Japanese word used to describe Metahumans in
> Shadowrun? Something a tad bit, derogatory? I think there was, in the Sam
> Verner novels, but I can't remember.

Corp Download uses "kawaruhito" to refer to metahumans from the Japanese
POV in the section on Yamatetsu. As I don't speak Japanese I have no idea
what it actually means, but you could consider it the "official" SR term.

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Message no. 4
From: Airwasp@***.com Airwasp@***.com
Subject: Metas in Japan
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:31:31 EDT
In a message dated 10/11/99 4:40:52 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
gurth@******.nl writes:

> > Is there a Japanese word used to describe Metahumans in
> > Shadowrun? Something a tad bit, derogatory? I think there was, in the
> Sam
> > Verner novels, but I can't remember.
>
> Corp Download uses "kawaruhito" to refer to metahumans from the Japanese
> POV in the section on Yamatetsu. As I don't speak Japanese I have no idea
> what it actually means, but you could consider it the "official" SR term.

Probably a lot of people know this one, but for anyone who is not Japanese
(in appearance), foreigners are called "gaijin."

And Japanese really hate it when someone they consider to be of Japanese
nationality, frag it, is a Japanese Pure-born (born in Japan from Japanese
parents), really comes from somewhere other that Japan.



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Message no. 5
From: Ahuizotl cuellare@***.telmex.net.mx
Subject: Metas in Japan
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 01:33:19 -0500
IIRC

kawaruhito or the ones that have change, in the sam verner novels the
term is kawaru or the change


Ahuizotl

Bull escribió:
>
> Quick question...
>
> Is there a Japanese word used to describe Metahumans in
> Shadowrun? Something a tad bit, derogatory? I think there was, in the Sam
> Verner novels, but I can't remember.
>
> Bull
> --
> Bull -- The Best Ork Decker You Never Met
> bull@*******.net == bull22@***********.com == bull@***********.com
> http://shadowrun.html.com/users/bull
> ICQ: 35931890
> ======================================================> =
> = Order is Illusion!
Chaos is Bliss! Got any Fours? > =
> ======================================================>
> "Animals have 2 jobs: To taste good and to fit well."
> -- Greg Proops, "Vs."

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