Re: Orthography Question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 5:16 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Hey! I always wondered why _tabako_ was written in hiragana! :D
Yeah, apparently it's just been in the language for so long, that they
seem to have forgotten that it was foreign! Or maybe when it entered
the language the distinction between hiragana and katakana wasn't so
strict? Any Japanese experts out there?
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