In the network or on television, you can often hear some strange katakana words. When you first hear them, they can be quite perplexing. They don’t seem like foreign words, but at the same time, they do. These words are actually modified foreign words in Japanese. Typically, the first one or two syllables of one word and one or two syllables of another word are extracted and combined to create a shortened word with a Japanese twist. In this article, I will explain what this is all about and provide some examples of how these combinations work.
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