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	Qwika - Japanese name
		Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters), although some names use hiragana or even katakana, or a mixture of kanji and kana.
		Japanese nationals are also required to give a romanized name for their passport.
		The common Japanese practice of forming abbreviations by concatenating the first two morae of two words is sometimes applied to names (usually those of celebrities).
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/Japanese_name (4073 words)

	Gairaigo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In particular, the word usually refers to a Japanese word of foreign origin that was not borrowed from Chinese.
		Japanese contains many abbreviated and contracted words, and there is a strong tendency to shorten and simplify words.
		Karaoke, a combination of the Japanese word kara (meaning empty) and the clipped form oke of the English loanword "orchestra" (J. ōkesutora), is a portmanteau that has entered the English language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gairaigo (820 words)

	Japanese name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters), although some names use hiragana or even katakana, or a mixture of kanji and kana.
		Japanese nationals are also required to give a romanized name for their passport.
		The common Japanese practice of forming abbreviations by concatenating the first two morae of two words is sometimes applied to names (usually those of celebrities).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_name (4027 words)

	Japanese - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Japanese
		The Japanese language is the only one spoken, though English is considered fashionable and is much used in advertising.
		Today, large corporations provide a way of life for many Japanese, although this appears to be less the case with the younger generation.
		The descendants of Japanese migrants are found in Hawaii and North and South America, and Japanese business communities now exist in the cities of most industrial nations.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Japanese (513 words)

	Economy News- Help:Japanese - Top news, Economy, Economic Review, Business, Banking & Finance, Finance & Taxation, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japanese text is written with a mixture of kanji and two kana syllabaries.
		Roman characters have also recently become popular for certain purposes in Japanese (see rōmaji), but their use is still very limited.
		Japanese vowels can either be long (bimoraic) or short (monomoraic).
	www.tin41.com /Help:Japanese.html (1045 words)

	Kansai-ben - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kansai-ben (Japanese: 関西弁, -ben "dialect") is a distinct group of related Japanese dialects found in the Kansai region of Japan.
		This is due both to the prevalence of comedians from Osaka in Japanese media as compared to people from other cities and regions, and to the willingness of Osaka comedians to use their own dialect while on stage.
		The korya and sorya contractions of kore wa and sore wa heard in relaxed speech in Tokyo are instead kora and sora throughout the Kansai region.
	en.freepedia.org /Kansai-ben.html (1835 words)

	International Seminar: PILGRIMAGE AND COMPLEXITY
		Exploration of the adjustments that have been made by pilgrims, pilgrim leaders, priests, area residents and transportation providers alike in the attempt to resolve the conflict be tween tradition and modernization reveals the underlying strength of the ongoing popularity of this pilgrimage.
		Japanese folk tradition holds that ashes from one or all of the eight Indian stupas are believed to be buried within the compound of each of the Shikoku eighty-eight temples.
		This geographical case study focussing on a Japanese example supports the notion that pilgrimage is an inherently dynamic self-organizing system (Malville) : pilgrimage sites emerge and decline and the spatial pattern of pilgrimage circula tion and ritual activities at specific locations change over time.
	www.colorado.edu /Conferences/pilgrimage/papers99/Shimazaki.html (6772 words)

	Aradashean Grammar
		They are added to the end of a noun in abbreviated form (usually one syllable) without a seperation, but with a mark (maiga) between them.
		Adverbs follow their respective verbs and are usually contracted to one syllable and added directly to the verb they modify with a mark (maiga) in between.
		Words are formed with nouns and their modifying adjectives written together as one word, the noun preceding the adjective(s).
	members.cox.net /aradashe/grammar.htm (742 words)

	Nihongoresources - grammar: chapter-01 - è¬¹è³æ—°å¹´ï¼
		As verbal words in Japanese consist of a kanji plus some hiragana to indicate inflection (called okurigana, 送(おく)り仮名(がな)), and since nouns are typically in kanji and particles essentially always in hiragana, the presence of kanji in a sentence lets you find word boundaries a lot faster than if there were no kanji.
		Words starting with "ko" (こ) refer to things in the speaker's personal zone, words starting with "so" (そ) refer to things in the listener's personal zone, and words starting with "a" (あ) refer to things that are neither in the speaker's nor the listener's personal zone.
		Some say that this means that the Japanese vocabulary can be reduced to a "real" subset of only the individual words, because compound words are just the sum of their parts, but as is the case in many languages where compound words are common rather than rare, in Japanese this is simply not the case.
	www.nihongoresources.com /language/grammar/chapter-01.html (13296 words)

	Awa Life - August 2000 - Your Guide to Young Japanese
		You don't need to be a foreigner to be baffled by the colloquialisms used by Japanese youth—many Japanese who don't belong to the younger generation are at a loss to keep up.
		The Japanese language seems to be a language that is particularly malleable and receptive to change, making it a great playground for youth who want to develop their own in-group speech.
		Here are some of the words from this glossary with an approximate English translation, and a dialogue [ view ] introducing some of the words in context.
	www1.ourtokushima.net /kankyou/seikatsubunka/awalife/august00/young.html (565 words)

	hentai hinata naruto yuri
		Moreover, as in all legal Japanese pornography, yuri hentai gallery explicit images are normally censored with mosaics over the entire genre as vapid pornography, yuri hentai and titles which use it mit acts of violence.
		In Japanese the word lolicon is not used in a room looking out the window and crawling along the outside of Japan.
		Some western anime and manga in European countries, hentai yaoi yuri a practice that may stem from the fact that most lolicon artwork is produced by the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; spring is a pound of (hen meaning unusual or strange) and (tai meaning attitude or appearance).
	yuri-hentai.madeinromania.info /hentai-hinata-naruto-yuri.html (2767 words)

	Japundit » Japanese Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The word aisatsu is applied to some other situations, too, such as when you move into a new apartment and give a small towel to your neighbors as a way of introducing yourself, or the long, drawn out speeches given by the head of any organization at any formal event, like a wedding.
		Part of this is the belief, held by almost all Japanese, that their language is one of the most difficult in the world, with its mixture of Japanese words and grammar overlaid by Chinese characters with readings that shift by context and region, with a heavy borrowing of foreign loan words for good measure.
		Volunteers from the economic and educational sectors established it in 1995 to overcome the lamentable state of the Japanese language and ensure the proper transmission of the kanji culture, which is the foundation of the language.
	japundit.com /archives/category/japanese-language (3329 words)

	Contraction - English dictionary
		A contract programmer may be independent or they may work in a supplier's professional services department, providing consultancy and programming services for the supplier's products.
		The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
		The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
	english.online-dictionary.biz /Contraction (184 words)

	Hiragana Japanese Learn Words
		Some words are simple transliterations of Japanese language words for concepts inherent to Japanese culture, but some are actually words of Chinese origin that were first exposed to English via Japan.
		Japanese words of Portuguese origin - Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests introduced Christian ideas, Western science and technology, among other things to the Japanese during the Muromachi period (15-16th century).
		Containing 18,000 words covering everyday vocabulary japanese word processor and core professional terms, it approaches the Japanese language from the point of view of the beginner student who may be unfamiliar with...
	le2.g-style-japan.com /hiraganajapaneselearnwords.html (1043 words)

	Japanese Tips
		Na acts as a contraction for nasai ("do it"), yet it is also a guyspeak word meaning "don't do it." The way to tell the difference is that the "do" meaning is attached to the masu-stem of a verb, while the "don't" meaning follows the verb's dictionary form.
		The word iu (which acts differently from the verb usage and is always written in hiragana) is used in combination with the nominalizer koto to mean "style/way/kind of thing." Usually it will have a pronoun such as kou ("this") or sou ("that") preceding it to explain what kind of thing.
		In informal speech, the -te shimau combination is contracted to -chimau/-chau (or -jimau/-jau in the case of -de shimau).
	www-personal.umich.edu /~weyrbrat/fanfic/anime/japanese (7556 words)

	Translate Japanese Words
		Words translate japanese words and phrases are categorized for easy reference, the touchscreen makes operation simple.
		Japanese pronouns - The Japanese language does not have pronouns as a grammatical category of words, per se; rather, the various words for "I", "you", "we", "they", and so on function as nouns for the purposes of sentence structure, grammar, and syntax.
		Containing 18,000 words covering everyday vocabulary english japanese language and core professional terms, it approaches the Japanese language from the point of view of the beginner student who may be unfamiliar with the conventions of a standard bilingual dictionary, which presupposes a basic knowledge of the language.
	to16.g-style-japan.com /translatejapanesewords.html (1096 words)

	Platts
		Abbreviation for anti-freeze, one of the larger end-uses of monoethylene glycol.
		Abbreviation commonly used in shipping to designate discharge or loading at one of these three ports.
		This phrase and its abbreviation AG are current in some sectors of the oil industry, especially the tanker world, as a designator for the Persian Gulf, which is the correct name in international law for the body of water bordered by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran.
	www.platts.com /Oil/Resources/Glossaries (9700 words)

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		Growing acceptance by Japanese corporations of credit card payments and their use of secure socket layer (SSL) technology means that another barrier (payment by automatic bank withdrawal from a domestic account) for overseas users is slowly being eliminated.
		One of the most severe contracts seems to be that of Asahi Shinbunsha's DNA for Library, which specifies that subscribers may print out one copy of an article but may not save the information to disk or send it (even to themselves) by e-mail.
		Given overseas interest in using Japanese databases, it is hoped that voiced concern over the remaining problems in access and problematic stipulations in contracts will open up a dialogue between user groups and the vendors and that the issues will be sorted out.
	www.library.umass.edu /subject/easian/shinpresent.doc (6506 words)

	Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara - Kuan Yin Pu'sa
		Avalokitesvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion is better known as Guanshiyin, abbreviated to Guanyin or Kuan-yin to the Chinese.
		They met, and before words were spoken the queen already recognized her was Miao-shan.
		The queen was about to lick the eyes with her tongue, but before she could do so, auspicious clouds enclosed all around, divine musicians began to play, the earth shook, and flowers rained down.
	web.singnet.com.sg /~sidneys/Avalokitesvara.htm (1623 words)

	Omniglot - the blog » Acronyms and abbreviations
		An abbreviation is a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used in place of the whole.
		Abbreviations and acronyms are becoming extremely frequent, if not even abused, in Italian too.
		For instance, Italy’s national football (soccer) federation, abbreviated FIGC, is typically referred to as “fi-gi-ci” (which sounds as “fee-jee-chee” in English), i.e.
	www.omniglot.com /blog/2006/06/01/acronyms-and-abbreviations (489 words)

	Pokemon Case Study
		In Japanese, a language based on syllables, it is common to refer to things using only the first syllables of their name, e.g., "television" becomes "te-re-bi".
		The Japanese version of the Game Boy game(s) and videos of the Japanese Pokemon show were available in the United States long before their official introduction.
		Japanese hits were thought to be difficult to sell in the U.S. but the blockbuster success of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Tamagotchi virtual pets (sold in North America by Bandai) changed that.
	w3.salemstate.edu /~poehlkers/Emerson/Pokemon.html (7194 words)

	JAPAN'S FORGOTTEN SUSHI SQUADRON Sea Classics - Find Articles
		Inasmuch as Japanese shipyards had lost their supply of steel from England, the steel to be supplied by the United States thus furnished an incentive to get those distant shipyards interested in the program.
		Like the contracts issued within the continental United States, the USSB contracts with the Japanese shipyards encouraged the builders to use existing designs in building the ships, thus speeding up the construction process.
		The result of the contracts going to yards which were already producing a variety of ships was the creation of almost as many USSB ship types as ships, a minor problem which was offset by a tight production timetable which enabled some of the ships to go into service before the end of the war.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4442/is_200506/ai_n16056796 (931 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary
		Words such as `mumble', `sigh', and `groan' are spoken in places where their referent might more naturally be used.
		This isn't done all the time for every such word, but it is done everywhere that a reminder seems useful that the term has a jargon meaning and one might wish to refer to its entry.
		Scare quotes (which mark a word being used in a nonstandard way), and philosopher's quotes (which turn an utterance into the string of letters or words that name it) are both rendered with single quotes.
	www.ccil.org /jargon/jargon.html (18824 words)

	Glossary of Novelization Japanese N-Z
		The Japanese terms left untranslated are words I have found to be commonly used in anime.
		Japanese children are also taught to referr to unfamiliar older girls as this.
		In FY, the word is commonly used to refer to the seven individuals who bear the kanji of their representative constellations upon their bodies.
	www.derik.org /Gateway/glossary2.htm (2817 words)

	Slang I
		Idagd is the abbreviated form of 'fmdidgad', pronounced 'fumd-idgad'.
		This in turn is an abbreviation of the line from "Gone with the Wind", namely, "Frankly my dear, i don't give a damn".
		contracted form of "isn't it?", doesn't it, don't they etc. Origin possible UK Euro-Asian, although I heard it during the 1960's in Italian restaurants in South Wales.
	www.odps.org /slangi.html (576 words)

	Yosha Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japanese women who became mistresses to foreign dignitaries in Shimoda and other ports opened to barbarian traffic in the middle of the 19th century were scorned by their contemporaries, but were later depicted as citizens who had been sacrificed for their country (Statler 1971: 560-561).
		Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians are sometimes denied teaching positions in fly-by-night English schools in Japan because of popular beliefs that their English--though natively acquired and college polished--is somehow not "pure" enough to serve as a model for Japanese students.
		Foreigners of Japanese ancestry are criticized by majority countrymen when they fail to reflect fully the values of the majority community, and they are criticized by Japanese for not retaining the values of their surname relatives in Japan.
	members.jcom.home.ne.jp /yosha/minorities/minoritiesjapan.html (12558 words)

	The Nacateca Language
		Instead, analytical languages reveal whether particular words function as subjects, verbs or objects strictly by their relative order in a sentence, or by how they modified by other words.
		Most words that serve as verbs and nouns are multi-syllabic, constructed from the more basic mono-syllabic elements by the processes of compounding and affixation.
		In many cases the first word in the compound is shortened, abbreviated, by dropping the syntactic suffix.
	www.bergonia.org /Cul/Nacateca.htm (3534 words)

	SpellingReform \| MetaFilter
		Japanese has a loose sentence structure, with the exception of the verb at the end of the sentence, you can re-arrange the order of the words and still be understood.
		I read somewhere that the Japanese and Chinese spend an extra 2 years in school just to over come the complexity of their reading and writing systems.
		Mite is already a word, and using their system, both mite and might would be spelled the same, causing another their, there, and there situation.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/26289 (5100 words)

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