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07-15-2009, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
All foreign words are made to fit Japanese pronunciation. And you are right, they might as well be Japanese, as they are adopted into the language.
true, and its the same with any language, but japanese makes a clear distinction between foreign and local words via a seperate alphabet, so one would expect they would know that a word was foreign regardless of whether they know where it comes from or not.
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