The TV series "Connections" once postulated that it was tea that did China in, scientifically speaking. Tea was drunk from ceramic mugs. The development of *glass*drinking utensils never came about....
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The TV series "Connections" once postulated that it was tea that did China in, scientifically speaking. Tea was drunk from ceramic mugs. The development of *glass*drinking utensils never came about....
Conquered != wiped out.
Maciamo, I like the way you think.
Personally, I believe you are correct in every way.
Judging from this, and your thread suggesting katakana were derived from European letters, I think you have a misguided and somewhat simplistic view of Japanese....
Considering how *few* Japanese had access or exposure to the Dutch, that is REALLY far-fetched.
Except -chan is a rather late arrival in the honorifics category, generally being considered a corruption of -san, which itself is a corruption of the older -sama.
Tony
This thread makes me cry.
I'm really gung-ho on the Heian period, and the paradigm shift to Kamakura (though for some reason everyone associates me with the sengoku). Fascinating stuff.
Tony
I should throw one in.
I was a Japanese history buff in college, so it was only natural that I started studying Japanese (back in 1978 -- Gah!!).
Sorry, but Yasuke was not a bodyguard, samurai, or advisor.
If anything, he was a "mascot." He was an oddity to Japan, and Nobunaga, ever one to be into exotica, acquired him from the fellow who...