Too many English loanwords in Japanese?
Language Log 2013-07-13
Summary:
In "Chinese loans in English", we have been debating why there are so few recent borrowings from Chinese into English. In contrast, not long ago the headline of a Japan Times article blazoned: "Gifu man, 71, sues NHK for distress over its excess use of foreign words". One might well ask why Hoji Takahashi waited [...]