At 05:20 AM 5/21/96 -0400, you 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)

in my textbook, there seems to be an excessive amount of katakana
words, to the point where they take the place of the original words.
like "Uiikuendo" instead of "Shuumatsu."

signed, phoneynt
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