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  • Paniku, guroi, asutoramu – English transformed

    Posted by on March 22, 2010

    Our next guest post, written by Jim Ronald, Professor of English Linguistics and Deputy Director of the International Affairs Center at Hiroshima Shudo University, discusses the transformation English words go through when adopted into Japanese. _______ Words from English always change in some ways when they become part of Japanese: in the way that they [...]

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