Amazing new Japanese words

Lingua Franca 2019-12-13

Summary:

These come from the following nippon.com article: "Pay It Forward: The Top New Japanese Words for 2019" (12/13/19) I'll list the words first, then explain which one is my favorite. A prefatory note:  nearly half of the words on these lists are based wholly or partly on borrowings from English, though they are assimilated into […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=45340

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Tags:

borrowing

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

12/13/2019, 18:56

Date published:

12/13/2019, 12:27