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davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
> Before I get down from my soapbox (how did I get here anyway? :-)
> I'd like to imagine Japan about 50 or 100 years from now. How will
> they explain to other people that "Japanese" is a collection of
> original Japanese sounds written in kanji based upon Chinese or
> hiragana, and a zillion words from English and other European
> languages written in katakana? Perhaps the only difference will be
> that English is written in one alphabet instead of various symbologies. 

    Yes, but we Japanese have some choice between using katakana
and invent new kanji-words for one concept.  One of the professor
I knew have been using "San-pu" for "programs" and "Henshuu-shi"
for "editors," of course spelled in kanji.  Well, this style is a
minor one after all, and we do spell "puroguramu" and "edita" in
katakna, which is the great majority.  But we do have these options.

> Hope that wasn't too boring, it's a subject which interests me
> greatly.... 

   Not boring, at all.  I'm also interested.

						    Yasushi Kuno