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- From: cbrooks@ms.uky.edu (Clayton Brooks)
- Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.sex,soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: Who started all this gaijin myth?! (was Re: Genitals in Japan)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.203857.21316@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:38:57 GMT
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- sakimura@sscl.uwo.ca writes:
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- >As I mentioned in an earlier post in soc.culture.japan, there is
- >a strong tendency for a Japanese to contract a word of more than
- >4 syllables to less than or equal to 4 syllables.
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- There is also a tendency for anyone to contract a word into one syllable
- if the meaning is not lost, but would anyone ever let me use the word
- Jap or Nip?
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- Apologies to all if this discussion has already been hashed out.
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