Garth Wallace wrote: > Wasn't talking about words English has borrowed from German or > vice-versa. Japanese has plenty of loanwords (from English mainly, but > also from German and other Western languages), but the native words are > totally unrelated and familiarity with any Western language will not > help you learn them. There's no way to predict which Western concepts > would be expressed in Japanese with a loanword or by building from > Japanese roots: for instance, "bicycle" in Japanese is "jitensha", but > "bus" is "basu". "Building", which you'd think Japanese would have a > term for, is merely "biru" (shortened from "birudingu"; not to be > confused with "biiru" with a long i, which is beer). >
Another example (ref Gundam X); Satelito System Anime rocks! -- Morten Nilsen, aka Dr. P We are the borg^]dbdbiMicrosoft. Prepare to be assimilated^]dbiembraced and extended. Resistance is futile^]dbdbdbiWe know you want it. :wq