| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 12, 2001, 23:34 |
E-Ching Ng wrote:>(This textbook also says that -chan is an honorific suffix added to > children's given names, but clearly that doesn't quite fit - > Dagu-chan is not a child. I guess the language changed since 1963.)Well, using "childish" words and names is a pretty common way of making pet names. Heck, just think of "baby" in English. -- ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42