Timeline for Why aren't マンション mansions? Or are they?
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| Aug 23, 2019 at 1:07 | comment | added | Eiríkr Útlendi | See also the マンション entry at Wiktionary and the "Mansion" page at Wikipedia, which both reference particularly British-English senses of the term as the source for the Japanese. So no, the Japanese didn't "get this wrong" as a loan word -- it's just borrowed from a different flavor of English than the one the author was familiar with. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 23:31 | comment | added | ssb | I probably just didn't read it thoroughly. I skimmed through the body and found the mansion block reference, so maybe disregard that comment. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 22:09 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @ssb the Japanese Wikipedia page describes マンション as wasei eigo. If it's faithful to the British English term, shouldn't it be mere gairaigo, not wasei eigo? | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 22:05 | vote | accept | Golden Cuy | ||
| Apr 7, 2013 at 12:22 | history | answered | nkjt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |