"If I should meet thee, After long years, How should I greet thee?"
Now that is a question that a Japanese Lord Byron would never have asked. He would have simply roared "Ohisashiburi desu!" like everyone else.
This is because the pat nihongo phrase for "It's been a while" is programmed deep into the language software of all Japanese everywhere.
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