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From: jon@fourwinds.com (Jon Steinhart)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:02:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201804060502.w3652pmx001767@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1804060058080.89700@frieza.hoshinet.org>

> In Japanese, it could turn some foreign loan word into a native word with a
> totally different meaning...

Not the way that it works.  Hiragana and katakana have exactly the same number
of characters with exactly the same pronunciation and the same meaning.  The
difference is more akin to using italics to indicate foreign words.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-06  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-05 21:03 Norman Wilson
2018-04-05 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:38   ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06  2:03     ` Random832
2018-04-06  4:27       ` Warner Losh
2018-04-06  4:31         ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:58         ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-06  5:02           ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2018-04-06  4:29       ` Steve Johnson
2018-04-06  5:57       ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 21:52         ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-05 22:46   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-05 23:23   ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-05 23:33     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-06  0:05       ` Toby Thain
2018-04-06  4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 15:00 ` Tony Finch
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Paul Winalski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-06 22:33 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-07  1:01 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-07  1:09   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-23 18:27 [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 20:50 ` [TUHS] long lived programs Steve Johnson
2018-03-23 21:07   ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 15:51 Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 16:25   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-03-23 16:59     ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-03-23 17:31       ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-23 16:32   ` Ron Natalie

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