Re: Borrowing Words

In a message dated 2003:09:26 01:25:04 PM, Peter.Bleackley@RD.BBC.CO.UK
writes:

>Staving Sam Drost:
>>How does one borrow words from another language when that word doesn't
>fit the phonology or has illegal consonant clusters in the target language?
In a message dated 2003:09:26 02:03:49 PM, h s teoh writes:

>Mangle and improvise. :-)
    Mangaviz!!! ;)

>In Japanese, at least, the answer is that you mangle the source word to
>fit the constraints of the target language. For example, my surname,
Bleackley,
>becomes buriikurii in Japanese.
    ::looks around for Christophe::

    One of my favourite Japanese word "mangalings" is _Gundam_ which IIRC
comes from "gun dream(s)"..._pokemon_ is from "pocket monster(s)"...
    Manga and anime has lotsa these - IMO especially the sci-fi kind...

    ::looks around for Christophe:: CG probably can tell you peeps more...

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