{"id":67675,"date":"2024-12-31T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67675"},"modified":"2024-12-31T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:47:39","slug":"etymology-of-ramen-and-katsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67675","title":{"rendered":"Etymology of ramen and katsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Friedman just published \"<a href=\"https:\/\/fritinancy.substack.com\/p\/52-interesting-things-i-learned-this\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52 interesting things I learned this year<\/a>\" (<em>Fritinancy<\/em>, 12\/30\/2024). The whole thing is worth reading, but I especially liked (10), which resonates with (17), which references LLOG.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">10.\u00a0 <strong>Japanese\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>ramen<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is a borrowing from\u00a0<strong>Chinese\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>lamian<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>the source of\u00a0<em>lo mein<\/em>. They\u2019re essentially the same word: \u201cThe\u00a0<em>l\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>r<\/em>\u00a0switch occurred because the Japanese\u00a0<em>r<\/em>\u00a0sound is an alveolar tap halfway between the phonemes.\u201d (<a class=\"_mention_nenbx_1\" href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/users\/193395523-adam-aleksic?utm_source=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Adam Aleksic&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:193395523,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/8bb798cd-0cfe-4328-844c-89184a43441c_794x1037.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ec176863-ba7f-4e70-9117-a3fb6a11f2fc&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"MentionUser\">Adam Aleksic<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymologynerd.com\/blog\/stretchy-noodles\" rel=\"\">Etymology Nerd<\/a>. More on L\/R convergence on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4s0EHAgdgX\" rel=\"\">Adam\u2019s Instagram account<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">17. <em><strong>Katsu<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Japanese for a fried meat, seafood, or vegetable cutlet<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>is a \u201cboomerang word.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s a clipping of\u00a0<em>katsuretsu<\/em>, which was adapted from English \u201ccutlet,\u201d which in turn was borrowed from French\u00a0<em>c\u00f4telette<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Katsu<\/em>\u00a0has now boomeranged back into English: it was added to the OED in March 2024. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/short-reads\/article\/3260279\/boomerang-word-katsu-japanese-borrowing-english-cutlet-among-2024-oxford-english-dictionary-new?module=perpetual_scroll_0&amp;pgtype=article\" rel=\"\">South China Morning Post<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=63580\" rel=\"\">Language Log<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Friedman just published \"52 interesting things I learned this year\" (Fritinancy, 12\/30\/2024). The whole thing is worth reading, but I especially liked (10), which resonates with (17), which references LLOG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67678,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67675\/revisions\/67678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}