[WalterBright]

The American GIs after the war loved to mangle Japanese:

Japanese person "Ohio gazimus!"

GI: "Well, Kentucky gazimus to you, too!"

or:

GI: "No toucha my mustache!"

Things went the other way, too. My dad would collect Japanese flyers aimed at GIs with horribly mangled English.

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The romaji is "gozaimasu"