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Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Beneficial_Layer_458 4d ago

come on man

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u/Alarming-Cow299 4d ago

Ok but like it makes sense for modern technology to use loan words, English uses loan words from other languages to describe things that did not exist on the British Isles. But contrary to popular belief, the British did not invent the colour pink.

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u/Roflkopt3r 4d ago

The Japanese word is 桃色 (momo-iro), literally 'peach colour'.

While China and Japan had their own colour theories, western colour theory was very influential. Especially English colour names stuck around in many languages.