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Re: Japanese (was an ol Conlang Post: "Borrowing Words")

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 8:13
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:38:00 EST, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 2003:09:27 03:19:59 PM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR > writes: > >> En réponse � J Y S Czhang : > >>> One of my favourite Japanese word "mangalings" is _Gundam_ which >> IIRC comes from "gun dream(s)"..._pokemon_ is from "pocket >> monster(s)"... >>> Manga and anime has lotsa these - IMO especially the sci-fi kind...
One Japanese creation I read about recently [hopefully not from this list, otherwise I'll look silly...] that I thought was quite cool (which may or may not be fictitious) is the word for a female ninja, |kunoichi|. (Hoping listserv wont mangle the unicode) Basically you take the kanji for woman, 女, and dismantle it into pieces: the hiragana く |ku| + the katakana ノ |no| + the kanji 一 |ichi| ('one'), thus くノ一 = kunoichi. Any conlangs do stuff like *that*? *Muke! -- http://frath.net/ E jer savne zarjé mas ne http://kohath.livejournal.com/ Se imné koone'f metha http://kohath.deviantart.com/ Brissve mé kolé adâ.