Talk:Kamui Gackpo/@comment-98.227.146.17-20120929195158/@comment-53539-20120930102248

I can name lots of Japanese things;


 * l/R is the most famous case
 * V/B/P all are the same at times...
 * f/ph have no distinction (see; "fair" and "pharoh")
 * "Dura" or "dora" get used for "dra".

The list goes on after that too, phonetically the Japanese language is limited and they make used of everything to make something out of what they have. Its partly why a lot of random english or other foriegn words appear in Japanese advertisments and anime even though their not a native language. And the number of puns which have taken advantage of the use of foreign words to mish-mash in Japanese and English words together is also there.

Ussop's alterego "Sogeking" from One Piece is "Sogeki" meaning "sniper" and "king" mushed up to make a word which means in translation; "sniper king".

In the case of Englsih we don't do things like this. We borrow the whole word for THAT particular thing, like sombrero which means "hat", we use as a loan word for that particular branch of hats. Calling something a sombrero hat is basically calling it "hat hat". "koi carp" is the same, "carp carp" is what we're saying. We do mash up words too, but we'd rather borrow the whole word. Its why the English language has ended up with so many loan words in the first place. We literally have intergrated a LOT of words into the English language and hence why its known as a "monguel language". Even if you don't include this... We've got celtic, roman, viking, saxon, normandy words in the basics of the language.

"chest" in roman, "we/were/when" is viking... And during the victorian age a lot of Indian words slipping into it too... :-/