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Old 05-12-05, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by D*Alex
FWIW, the writing may actually be Japanese, since Japan has always had close ties to Taiwan (actually occupying it from the late 1800's until the end of WW2), so it's possible that the bike was actually made for the Japanese market.
It's probably more likely that the original poster can't readily identify asian languages. A bit of a novice in Japanese myself (2 semesters several years ago), I usually parse for hiragana and katakana, because of the immediate visual difference, before I begin trying to understand something I've just found. Try to explain that to someone though, and they look at you like your speaking Chinese...
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