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)






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