Frightening Borrow-Words

[debka_notion]

I just came across the Hebrew words for Anthropocentric and theocentric in my Hebrew homework. They look Awfully scary, even if they sound almost exactly like the English.

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that Japanese has no native L sound. That would make things complicated.

[sharonaf.livejournal.com]

I did once receive a New Year's card from Japan when I was in Israel. I believe my correspondent used the transliteration I-er-u-sa-re-mu. Not all that bad, considering.
*still remembers the fun Japanese teacher had referring to classmate named Lukashevsky*

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Ahh, the joy of Slavic lastnames... In a similar theme, I liked how someone once turned my last name into Kosokosow. Certainly sounds a bit Japanese that way- maybe just the arrangement of syllables, not that I know anything about Japanese....

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

Poor Jonathan-san and Anthony... (Japanese also has no "th", which becomes an "s", thus resulting in jonasansan and the like...) 'Course, I'm torabisu, so... gee, Sharona, you're lucky, ne?