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PRACTICE (August 28, 2004)

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"Combat erroneous KATAKANA English!"

(by Haga)


You find KATAKANA-English words in KOJIEN dictionary. They are authorized as Japanese words. 《MISHIN》 stems from 《sewing machine》, 《MERIKEN KO》 stems from 《American flour》 and so forth.

On the other hand, we see many strange KATAKANA English words. They are disrespect to English & Japanese. We cannot make ourselves understood in those KATAKANA English. Sometimes they cause misunderstanding.

Let's combat erroneous KATAKANA English and study beautiful English & Japanese expressions. I'll show you about 20 KATAKANA English expressions. Why not make a comment on them and try to use them in proper usage one another.

 

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