Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!
The chatter of the tabacco deal was unable to be comprehended.
A long history of absorbing outside influences has resulted in a society in which people expect to have a Shinto baptism, a pseudo-Christian wedding (usually held in a hotel  chapel  and officiated by an unordained foreigner in a robe), and a Buddhist funeral.