Re: Error rate, Circumlocution, and Cappucino
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 4:27 |
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:18:09 -0400, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
wrote:
> Paul Bennett wrote:
>> About 6.5 seconds with Daniels & Bright has shown me the error of my
>> ways. Oh, well: カップチ〰ノ. I was close. Maybe.
>
> Hunh. My dictionary shows Kapuchiino (カプチーノ), no geminated _p_
As noted, I'm working entirely without a dictionary, or for that matter a
safety net of any kind.
Does this (no, not that, the other bit) imply that Japanese borrowed the
term from somewhere other than Italian, or do I know so little about
Italian orthography that it's laughable?
Paul
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