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发帖数: 3016 | 1 By NORIMITSU ONISHI, NY Times
Published: March 17, 2004
OKYO — Of all languages in the world, Japanese is the only one that has an
entirely different set of written characters to express foreign words and
names. Just seeing these characters automatically tells the Japanese that they
are dealing with something or someone non-Japanese.
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So foreign names, from George Bush to Saddam Hussein, are depicted in these
characters, called katakana. What's more, the names of foreign citizens of |
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