Re: English-esque Vocabulary Range
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 17, 2003, 15:11 |
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:51:18PM -0600, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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> > Is that then my interest in anime that made me encounter the prefix "nippo-"
> > quite often? ;)))) I admit reading it mostly in French texts though.
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> I've never seen that in English, so I suspect that the prefix is a
> French thing. :-)
English would probably be resistant to adopting this prefix due to the
inescapable similarity to "nipple"...
Amanda
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