Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the centuries the Japanese have adopted many Chinese words, though the two languages remained entirely separate. Nor was Chinese the only foreign element. Portuguese missionaries later introduced pan (bread), and Dutch traders biiru (beer). Then came the tidal wave of English. Some of these Japanized words filled a practical need (takushi, taxi, or rajio, radio), while some were primarily fashionable (kohi-shoppu, coffee shop...
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