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

From: Gerard van Wilgen <gvanwilgen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:13:32 +0200

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

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.

Well, "sin" in "Sinophone" isn't really a Classical Greek or Latin root either, is it? At least not an original one.

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Gerard van Wilgen

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