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From: Raul Prades <92prades@scar.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Words Contrived to Sound Like They're From Another Language (Was Re: Kemosabe)
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On 1 Oct 1996, Cornell Kimball wrote:

>      My other question is, does this occur in other dialects of English
> (outside of American English), and does this process -- of coining a
> word in one language to make it appear as if it's from another language
> -- occur in languages other than English?  Has anybody coined any words
> in Japanese that are supposed to be English (but really aren't)?

From what I've heard, the maker of Haagen Daaz thought of the neologism
"Haagen Daaz" for his ice cream, probably trying to sound like some sort
of germanic language (I think specifically Dutch) as they are supposedly
well-known for their ice cream.

There are also some electronic appliance manufacturers that are based in
the U.S., but whose name is made to appear like a Japanese term (a
country known for electronics).  If memory serves me correctly, Sanyo is
one of them.

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