(keitai-l) Re: what does Keitai actually mean?

From: Oliver Wittchow <wittchow_at_nanoloop.de>
Date: 11/05/00
Message-ID: <3A058D1E.FB5D5EA8@nanoloop.de>
Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> 
> 
> mobile phone = keitai denwa
> keitai denwa is written as four chinese characters:
> ..

to complish this:

it's native japanese, but it is also often written in katakana
characters (phonetic) like it was a foreign word:

ke ta i	(first "i" missing for convinience)

sounds/looks more "casual".. 


cheers

oliver wittchow

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Received on Sun Nov 5 18:33:04 2000