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From: jon@fourwinds.com (Jon Steinhart)
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:02:51 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
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> 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.