Re: Japanese (was an ol Conlang Post: "Borrowing Words")
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 8:13 |
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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:
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>> En réponse � J Y S Czhang :
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>>> 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!
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