I think "pan" for "bread" came from Portuguese (of all languages!)... apparently during the Portuguese missionaries in Japan around the 1500s.
I just about fell off my chair when Sorata said "sweet lover" in a sort of Japanized English in X. But hey! The propensity to directly transliterate English and other words into Japanese was a huge help when I was writing my thesis -- I could just sound out words like "heteronormative" and "sexuality."
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Date: 2004-08-23 04:07 am (UTC)I just about fell off my chair when Sorata said "sweet lover" in a sort of Japanized English in X. But hey! The propensity to directly transliterate English and other words into Japanese was a huge help when I was writing my thesis -- I could just sound out words like "heteronormative" and "sexuality."