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Re:Origami Simulator by janneklouman on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:03PM (#16377778)
Some linguistic trivia: the word origami is a Japanese compound of "fold" (折り - ori) and "paper" (紙 - kami), literally translating to "fold paper" (折り紙 - origami).
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Re:Origami Simulator by evincarofautumn on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:19PM (#16381450)
More precisely, the verb is 折る (oru) and 折り (ori) is the continuative/noun form, 連用形 (ren’youkei), so it’s “folding paper”.
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Re:Origami Simulator by meigwilym on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:04AM (#16382714)
The parent comment pas paper as 'kami', yet the 'k' morphs into a 'g' in the final word. Is this common in Japanese? I've not seen it much outside of Welsh, my own mother tongue.
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Re:Origami Simulator by janneklouman on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:58AM (#16383123)
Interesting. Yes, it's common. If you're interested you can read about it on wikipedia[0] and a bit more in depth here[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku

[1]: http://linguistics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/978019...

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Re:Origami Simulator by janneklouman on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:47AM (#16383089)
You're right, thank you for clarifying.
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