Re: Text Messages in Chinese and Japanese (WAS: Writing French without accented characters)

Dylan Sung wrote:

> Sinophone? Nipponophones?!!!

"Sinophone" is pretty standard; "Nipponophone" looks weird because it
puts a non-Greek (or -Latin) root together with a Greek one. If we knew
the Classical Greek (or Latin) word for Japan, we might be able to
create a less jarring term.

But there must be something standard among Nipponologists.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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