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A comment on Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores. Parent comment

Re:Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores by dkdbejwi383 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:44AM (#28106030)
My favourite is アルバイト (Arubaito) for part-time job, from the German “arbeit” (to work)
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Re:Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores by rkachowski on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:59AM (#28106084)
I tried to learn Japanese by sheer force of effort and managed to make "do-eet-su" stick in my mind to mean "German". It was years later that the penny dropped and i realized it was just "Deutsch" transliterated.
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