Weird, or just different?

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Sun, 01/31/2010 - 12:50

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I was pretty amused by this short TED Talk, which coincidentally discusses the way that Japanese addresses are assigned (which we talked about in class when we learned the 丁 kanji...)

Weird, or just different?

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