*pleased* I wondered when I heard "pan" for "bread" in The Elephant Vanishes whether it was a French loan-word or just coincidence.

I've noticed from anime subs that the average Japanese person knows a lot more English than I know Japanese -- but they don't always know all the English they *think* they know. Or, if they can communicate with each other but boggle me, I suppose it's technically a new dialect, which is just nifty.