On Tue, 21 May 1996, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

PhoneyNT said:

p.s. on the side, is anyone but me bothered by the large number of 
katakana words i see that sound like english words?  i personally 
would not want my own language being impinged upon by english.

That's what katakana is for, foreign loan words.  And they're not all
English -- for example, "Arubaito" (part-time job) is from German (I think)

Katakana is used in conjunction with Hiragana to write loan words;
however, it is also used for formal missives (telegrams, military or
official orders, proclaimations, etc.
   "Arubaito" comes from the German "Arbeit"(work), I believe.

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