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vocabulary
Manshon is not a mansion, and naibu does not mean naive — Japanese loanwords are full of traps. Let's decode the most common ones.
vocabulary
Pan comes from Portuguese, biiru from Dutch, and shuukuriimu has nothing to do with shoes — unravel the fascinating origins of food loanwords.
vocabulary
Homupeji doesn't mean homepage, and no English speaker has ever said pasokon — tech loanwords have more pitfalls than you think.
