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Originally Posted by trunker
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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You would think, but you'd be wrong in a few instances. The fact that Japanese has お茶 instead of ご茶 shows that they've forgotten that 茶 comes from Chinese.