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Wikipedia provides a list of foreign words coined in Japanese, similar to the process by which we have coined Latin and Greek words such as intercom and television: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eigo_terms">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eigo_terms</a>. BB<div><br><div><div>On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Louis Janus wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">I have a collection of falske venner between Norwegian and English on my web page:</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><a href="http://norwegianlan" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">http://norwegianlan</a><wbr
style="line-height: 1.22em; ">guage.info/<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">words/false-<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">friends.htm</font></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">And there is a link of such pairs among from Swedish to the other Nordic languages.</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Louis Janus</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div><img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11682781/grpspId=1709195911/msgId=4562/stime=1218739399/nc1=3848621/nc2=5028928/nc3=5191954" width="1" height="1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><span style="color: white; "></span></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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