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Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by sheepdestroyer on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:35AM (#23800768)
From Wikipedia, that's technically and etymologicaly correct :

"The cutlet was introduced to Japan during the Meiji period, in a Western cuisine restaurant in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo. The Japanese pronunciation of cutlet is katsuretsu.

In Japanese cuisine, katsuretsu or shorter katsu is actually the name for a Japanese version of the Wiener schnitzel, a breaded cutlet. Dishes with katsu include tonkatsu and katsudon."

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Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by wodenokoto on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:20PM (#23804357)
TIL, but in my defense, an abbreviation of a transliteration, which has come to mean something slightly different should probably be considered a new word and not be transliterated back into its etymological ancestor.
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