tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 02 20:57:15 2006
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Re: How do you say "pizza" in Klingon?
- From: Eric Zay <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: How do you say "pizza" in Klingon?
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
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That's not the same situation at all. During WWII Japan was ruled by an emperor the Japanese believed to be a god. That puts an entirely different spin on the situation. It raises the use of unwanted words almost to the level of blasphemy. Iran and France are not really comparable to Japan of that era.
SuSvaj
"Stephen A. Carter" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT), Eric Zay wrote:
>And neither country will have much success with this. You can't control the natural flow of a language.
That's the conventional wisdom, but it's not always true.
During World War II the nationalists running Japan banned the use of
many European loan words "polluting" Japanese, and the ban was
effective, at least while they remained in power. When the ban ended
after the war, most of the new coinages were dropped, but a few
stuck: to this day the usual word for "baseball," for example, is
*yakyuu* ("field ball"), which had been coined to replace the earlier
*beesubooru*.
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