<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Although today is National Punctuation Day, there's a new post on the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Web of Language,</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> and it has nothing to do with punctuation:</SPAN></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The governments of France, Germany, Russia and Iran have all tried to eradicate the English borrowings so common in their languages, but they haven’t had much success banning popular English words and expressions and replacing them with awkward native alternatives. That’s because most citizens ignore their government’s language prescriptions even more than they ignore its speed limits.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Now, according to the </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070923x1.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4C2387"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Japan Times,</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> nativists in Japan want to purify their language of </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">gairaigo</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> – that’s Japanese for borrowed words – especially the English ones which proliferate on signs, product labels, and t-shirts, and which pop up more and more in Japanese speech and writing too. They haven’t had much luck so far.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Japanese has always been a borrowing language. It began importing </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">kanji,</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> the Japanese word for ‘Chinese characters,’ over a thousand years ago, and since World War II speakers of Japanese have been stockpiling English words like they’re going out of style. But Japan has also had a love-hate relationship with the West, and sometimes with the East as well. In the 19th century, and again in the lead-up to the war, nationalist movements sought to cleanse Japanese of its foreign words, along with other foreign influences. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">But the inoculations against English didn’t take, and once again the Japanese government is worried that a juggernaut of Americanisms threatens Japanese culture. Critics of global English aren’t reassured by the fact that English still suffers from a negative balance of trade, borrowing even more words than it exports – </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">juggernaut,</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> for example, actually comes from Hindi.....</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Read the rest of this post, and revisit last year's post (not)celebrating </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://webtools.uiuc.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=197&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">National Punctuation Day, </SPAN></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">on </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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