A plethora of katakana?
Language Log 2025-01-13
Summary:
I sent the above photograph of a body lotion (bodirōshon ボディローション) bottle to Nathan Hopson and asked him why it has so many katakana words, also why they have to give a phonological gloss for yuzu, which should be a fairly common word in Japanese (even I know it!). He replied: Two things to say here. First, the 柚 […]