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		glandium on Oct 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The foreign words that seem like English, but aren... It is.

frooxie on Oct 16, 2016 [–]

A weird detail is the Chinese transliteration of "karaoke":卡拉ＯＫ. It starts out with two Chinese characters pronounced "ka" and "la", and then tacks on the English "OK": ka-la-OK. So the English word "orchestra" turned into "OK" after two transliterations.

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