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Tosho wrote:The French are quite proud of their language. So heres an option, instead of banning words frenchise them.

Example: The Japanese are proud of their language, do they foreign words? No they assimilate them, for example, computer=konpyutaa.
Le Emaille perhaps? :lol:
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*chuckle* French in French fries refers to how the potatoes are cut*L* they were invented in Belgium
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Tosho wrote:The French are quite proud of their language. So heres an option, instead of banning words frenchise them.

Example: The Japanese are proud of their language, do they foreign words? No they assimilate them, for example, computer=konpyutaa.
That's a bit different. Kana pronounciation of words in the Japanese language doesn't come from a Japanese effort to keep their language pure, but simply to make the word pronouncable and writable. English words, as they are, aren't formated the same way as japanese words and can't be written readily in katakana.
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Typhonis 1 wrote:*chuckle* French in French fries refers to how the potatoes are cut*L* they were invented in Belgium
Didn't Belgium use to be a northern province of France?


Tosho wrote:Example: The Japanese are proud of their language, do they foreign words? No they assimilate them, for example, computer=konpyutaa.
And don't forget that in Japan, Spider-Man is called...

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