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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4182436" data-attributes="member: 2804">Technically, its &quot;Pasokon&quot; for a personal computer, but close enough. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&quot;Remokon&quot; is indeed remote control. Japanese steals liberally from foreign languages. The interesting thing about Japanese is it has a linguistic structure inherent in the language which allows it to import foreign words but also identify them as non-Japanese through the use of the katakana alphabet.The difficult thing with learning Japanese is that though it borrows most heavily from English, it raids other languages as well, and sometimes it can be hard to identify exactly why a certain word is in katakana and where it came from originally. For example, almost all high tech words come from American English. But most automobile terms from British English. &quot;Boneto&quot; = bonnet, which we in America would refer to as the hood of the car. &quot;Handoru&quot; = handle, which in the U.S. would be steering wheel. Salad is &quot;sarada&quot;, but bread in Japanese is &quot;pan&quot; (pronounced PAH-N) and comes from German, I believe.And then the Japanese take words from other languages and give it a different meaning. For example the Japanese have the expression &quot;rabu rabu&quot; which comes from the word &quot;love&quot; and while its meaning partially depends on context, it can mean to cuddle as a verb, or to be affectionate with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 4182436, member: 2804"] Technically, its "Pasokon" for a personal computer, but close enough. :) "Remokon" is indeed remote control. Japanese steals liberally from foreign languages. The interesting thing about Japanese is it has a linguistic structure inherent in the language which allows it to import foreign words but also identify them as non-Japanese through the use of the katakana alphabet. The difficult thing with learning Japanese is that though it borrows most heavily from English, it raids other languages as well, and sometimes it can be hard to identify exactly why a certain word is in katakana and where it came from originally. For example, almost all high tech words come from American English. But most automobile terms from British English. "Boneto" = bonnet, which we in America would refer to as the hood of the car. "Handoru" = handle, which in the U.S. would be steering wheel. Salad is "sarada", but bread in Japanese is "pan" (pronounced PAH-N) and comes from German, I believe. And then the Japanese take words from other languages and give it a different meaning. For example the Japanese have the expression "rabu rabu" which comes from the word "love" and while its meaning partially depends on context, it can mean to cuddle as a verb, or to be affectionate with. [/QUOTE]

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