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  • Pretty scary to think about how much of your communication is/can be monitored, says a link to a gen kanai blog entry where the ` busted ` letter was first posted.

    HBO: poisoning BT downloads 2005

  • For example, I refuse to refer to Jana by the commonly used term for wife, kanai literally “in the house”.

    sexist words? | Mind on Fire 2007

  • Pretty scary to think about how much of your communication is/can be monitored, says a link to a gen kanai blog entry where the `busted` letter was first posted.

    HBO: poisoning BT downloads 2005

  • [3] _Si-ká-lig_ root for red effects, pieces of _kanai-yum_ tree for black and pieces of _du-au_ for yellow effects.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • To Westerners, this may not sound like an act of great devotion, but to Kurita’s family, it showed sensitivity and unusual consideration; in Japanese, the second meaning for wife,kanai , is “woman in the back room.”

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • To Westerners, this may not sound like an act of great devotion, but to Kurita’s family, it showed sensitivity and unusual consideration; in Japanese, the second meaning for wife,kanai , is “woman in the back room.”

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • nirai kanai in the absence of order, go find something and kill it

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2009

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