From: sunniechan@comcast.net   
      
   Phoenix wrote:   
   > Sunnie wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Also, I think I may have heard wrong, but I swear I heard Rei refer to   
   >>Usagi as "Usagi-chan" when talking to Luna at one point, but I didn't   
   >>want to bug SK by rewinding to double-check.  I'm probably just   
   >>imagining things. ^^;   
   >   
   >   
   > If Rei was speaking of Usagi in the third-person, then that would be a   
   > reasonable reference. Depending on the relationship between you, the   
   > person you're speaking with and the person to whom you're referring,   
   > you might use a number of variants for that person's name as opposed   
   > to how you would address that person directly.   
   >   
   >   
      
   One of the things we never really discussed in the four years I took   
   Japanese.  Purdue's program, not very good. ^^;  Sadly, I even have a   
   minor in the language.   
      
   But yeah, I was guessing that might be the case, although I wasn't sure.   
      
   Sunnie   
      
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