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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
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Subject: Re: False cognates
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 19:19:49 EDT
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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Subject: Re: False cognates:
>
>Japanese also has a number of loan words from English which are not
>immediately obvious without study.  Like "rabu" (love).  (Well, the
>
>--Lee Gold
>
It seems surprising that a word for such a basic concept as love in a language
as old as Japanese is claimed to be borrowed from the much newer language
English.  How could that come to be?  Does "rabu" stand for any particular
kind of love?  I presume that there are many ways of saying "love" in Jap-
anese other than "rabu" -- or are there?  (I don't have a handy Japanese guru.)
Can anybody clear up the mystery?

Dan Levy
AT&T CSD (formerly Teletype)
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