Re: japanese

In a message dated 07/06/2002 08.46.12 PM, the Pollster-Par-Excellence
Peter-Clark writes:

>        Given the heavy influx of English words, I suppose Japanese is
>well on its way to becoming an IE language, though. :) [. . . ]P.S. Just
kidding.

    LOL ::"kokkuri kokkuri"::

>I am well aware that just because English is 70% Latin/French does not a
Romance >language make.

    It doesn't 0_o?!  ;)  ::'kukku"::  Half-seriously though, I have a "pet"
theory that Academic/Scientific/Legal/Medical/etc. English varieties are
closer to Romance languages than other more "mundane Englishes."

>        P.P.S. My wife, who spent four years in Japan, was better able
>to understand the change English experience after 1066 when I compared it to
the >situation in Japanese.

    ::"pachikuri"::   :O

>        P.P.P.S. I have the number, "10,000 English loans in Japanese"
>bouncing around in my head. Can anyone confirm/deny?
    ::"pachikuri"::   :0

>        P.P.P.P.S. I have gotten into the bad habit of speaking katakana
>English. I especially love to add -u to the end of words...
    ::"kara-kara-byte"::

    NOTE: notes on the Japanese provided by Yuri Mayakovskii. The mangling is
all mine though ::BiG GRiN::

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