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Japan is actually a very pride, 'authentic' nation, isn't it?

caster51 said:
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70% of modern chinese vocabulary was made by japanese

What are you talking about ?
 
もしも中国が日本製漢語を輸入しなかったら、毛沢東も毛沢東思想を書けなかった
http://www.zhaojun.com/youci/riyu.htm

Japan is just borrowing Kanji
we are not borrowing vocabulary
 
caster51 said:
Japan is just borrowing Kanji
we are not borrowing vocabulary

That's almost the same. Have you ever learned Chinese or been to China ? I can tell you that a lot of compound words in Chinese and Japanese are the same. Those which are different are usually easy enough for me to understand in Chinese from learning Japanese.
 
reply to 70% claim

It would be best to state sources before making statistical statements with regard to modern vocabulary. Is it from a linguistic base that this statement arises?
It is best to find consensus as inflammatory comments polarize
and defeat attempts to understand.
One could write about the shock to chinese thinking after the invasion of manchuria as well as one could relate the impact of chinese influenced by the americans in burma on ...japanese soldiers soon to return to nippon.Either way there was cross-pollination from a position of military history
 
It would be best to state sources before making statistical statements with regard to modern vocabulary. Is it from a linguistic base that this statement arises?
The person who makes remarks by the prejudice or illusions is numerous.
I can tell you that a lot of compound words in Chinese and Japanese are the same
Everybody Knows......
those are from japan..in particular,technical terms ...science,economics,philosophy.......so on.
japan did requital of a favour that borrowed Kanji
 
caster51 said:
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70% of modern chinese vocabulary was made by japanese
Japan acquired loan words from China, from the sixth, through the seventeenth centuries, and since the mid nineteenth century, borrowed thousands more from the west, particularly from English... not to mention those exceptional words kept from Portugues & Dutch, but overall the language owed much much more to spoken Chinese.

I can talk about this all day, but it seems like your primary goal is to make it seem as if China owes Japan a debt for it's own language, which Japan had borrowed heavily from in the first place.

As Maciamo said, borowing Kanji in the case of Japanese/Chinese is much the same as borrowing vocabulary... I'm sorry, but this is just linquistically true... Any book on the history of the Japanese language, or Kanji will back this up. Don't turn this thread into some nationalistic rant about China.
 
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yukio_michael said:
I'm sorry, but this is just linquistically true... Any book on the history of the Japanese language, or Kanji will back this up. Don't turn this thread into some nationalistic rant about China.
I am not talking nationalistic rant about China .
I am just talking the fact
ツ.ツ「窶吮??窶ーテ伉人窶督ッ窶ケツ、ヒ彗ツ坂?伉」ツ、ツ「窶吮??ツ坂?倪?ケツ、ナスY窶怡ツ」窶堙債"ヒ彗ツ青サナ?ツソナ津ェ

The culture, language..are not one-way traffic.
 
If I understand the Google translation of your Japanese text correctly, it only says that the majority of modern loan words in Chinese is Japanese (which I doubt, it's more probably English). It doesn't say that the majority of the complete (modern) Chinese vocabulary is of Japanese origin.
 
Yes, that is right..
if the japanese were nationalistic, Japan would give up the Kanji like korean.
we are not stupid like that.
we are proud of kanji from China
 
It also looks like these words are specialized, i.e. only used in certain scientific fields. By the way, where did you get the number 70%?
 
Here is my rough translation of the Japanese text above, for a more readable translation than Google's. I didn't translate any of the word lists, though.

その理由は、日本が新しく作った語彙がよく出来ていた からである。当時の日本では、 西洋の新語を訳すとき、 大部分は意訳をしていた。 その意訳の場合、ちゃんと中国の造語法のルールを守って新しい語彙を作った。 具体的には、
○形容詞+名詞(人権 金庫 特権 哲学)
○副詞+動詞(独占 交流 高圧 特許 否定 肯 定)
○同義語を重ねる(解放 説明 方法 共同 主義 階級)
○動詞+客語(投票 休戦 作戦 投資 投機 抗議)
○上述の語による複合語(会主義 自由主義 治外 法権)

"The reason is that Japan created many new words. In Japan of the time, when they would translate Western words, for they most part they would translate the ideas. When they translated them they did so by the rules of the Chinese when they would make new words. Specifically:

Adjective + noun
Adverb + verb
Combine synonyms
Verb + object
Compound words based on the words of the above types"

中国が近代になってから取り入れた外来語は殆んどが日 本製だとか。特筆すべきは日本製の語彙は、 現代中国語における使用頻度が非常に高いと言う事であ る。であるから自然科学と社会科学の基本概念も日本製 漢語を通じて中国に入り、ひいては日本製語彙で中国人 は思考していると言うことにもなる。

"Since the advent of modern times the loan words that China has imported have nearly all been Japanese made. It's worth mentioning that the usage rate of Japanese made words in modern Chinese is extremely high. Therefore, the basic idea of natural science and social science were brought to China through Japanese made "Chinese words." Moreover, Chinese people think using Japanese made words."
 
it is too exaggerated to say that Chinese cannot do without Japanese loan words.
 
caster51 said:
The culture, language..are not one-way traffic.
The sooner EVERYONE in the world realize this, it will be a much better place to live.
 
Mikawa Ossan said:
The sooner EVERYONE in the world realize this, it will be a much better place to live.
That goes without saying! I feel like going to a karaoke bar and singing "What a wonderful world"!

Anyways, it is an interesting viewpoint that 70% of the modern Chinese vocabulary is of Japanese origin, but I refuse to blindly accept it because one Chinese professor wrote about it. I googled and wikid around for a while but couldn't find evidence that concurrs with this theory.

I does make me think though, 'cos the Dutch language has some (not a lot) German words, but do the Germans use Dutch words? Same goes for the relationship with the French language; we have a lot of words of French origin, but are there French words of Dutch origin? Although I have no research data, it seems that smaller countries adopt vocabulary from larger, neighbouring countries easier than the other way round.. Anyone have similar observations?
 
Did you know that 85% of the words and grammatical rules in Japanese actually come from old Sumerian ? Yes, it's true, I just wrote it was !

Isn't caster a wonderful example of lack of critical-mindedness which results from the Japanese education system ?
 
Isn't caster a wonderful example of lack of critical-mindedness which results from the Japanese education system ?

Japanese education system?
I was a failure from that LOL
 
leonmarino said:
Although I have no research data, it seems that smaller countries adopt vocabulary from larger, neighbouring countries easier than the other way round.. Anyone have similar observations?

I would say it's more that the more powerful (politically and culturally) countries are borrowed from more than less powerful countries, similar to how one dialect gets chosen to be the standard over another.
 
leonmarino said:
Although I have no research data, it seems that smaller countries adopt vocabulary from larger, neighbouring countries easier than the other way round.. Anyone have similar observations?

English is the perfect counter-example. It is originally the language of England, later extended to the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland. Due to colonisation of the political importance of both the UK and USA, English has influenced more languages in the world than any other. Many countries that were never colonised (e.g. the rest of Europe, Japan...) also adopted a lot of vocabulary from English.

Other counter-example, the German language has much more words from French than the opposite, yet Germany is more populous than France, and continent-wise, there are also more German speakers than French speakers.

Don't even get me started on Latin, the ancient language of central Italy, an Greek, only spoken by 10 million native speakers nowadays, having influenced all European languages, including English.
 

I guess he is the result of the Chinese education system. He's quoting from the Chinese professor.

http://www.china.org.cn/chinese/ch-yuwai/193347.htm

Japan modernized earlier than China, and they translated new western concepts to their own language. During this process, they coined new words to apply to the new concepts, and the Chinese reborrowed these western concepts from the Japanese, which is why the Chinese language has many loan words from Japan.
 
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Wow! So Caster was right after all!.. I still find it strange that it is not mentioned in any other -English- site though.
 
leonmarino said:
Wow! So Caster was right after all!.. I still find it strange that it is not mentioned in any other -English- site though.

Not at all. Caster said "Today 70% of modern chinese vocabulary was made by Japanese", well in fact it is 70% of the technical vocabulary ! That's a huge difference. We could say that 70% of the technical words in French or in Japanese also come from English (esp. in computering, marketing...).
 
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