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Anonymous
2:47 PM
@virmaior If we count ラーメン, how about 麻婆豆腐? :-)
 
Anonymous
Nov 11 '13 at 2:13, by snailboat
At one point, Sound Horizon's lyrics say 錏痾蛙遭嗟有合或吾会在唖逢娃婀堊, which they pronounce ああああああああああああああああ
 
virmaior
virmaior
3:05 PM
fair enough.
 
broccoli forest
broccoli forest
3:38 PM
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Q: Is there an etymology dictionary for katakana words

Morella AlmannI'm a beginner with Japanese and have been practicing katakana more recently and in doing so, I noticed that many -maybe most- times, the reason something is written in katakana is because it is deriving from english. I know that there are often times also katakana words that are derivitive of ot...

katakana
「英語禁止」ゲームやった時に例えば「ズボンは英語じゃないから大丈夫」的な主張してたの思い出しますね
「ズボン」は英語じゃないけど「スカート」は英語
@snailplane it looks like some sort of sorted jis kanji list
mechanically extracted
 
 
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Anonymous
6:12 PM
@broccoliforest But did you notice the symmetry in the phonetic elements? If you just look at the first three and last three, you have 錏痾蛙 and 娃婀堊, so you've got 亞阿圭⇔圭阿亞
 
Anonymous
I thought they might have done that on purpose :-)
 

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