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02-11-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Ponpon View Post
Oh hey! yeah i get it now thanks personally i think it would be easier to understand if they just wrote hocchikisu
why are you writing it in katakana though? i thought hotchikisu was a japanese word??
nah, it is a loan word which comes from an American company name - EH Hotchkiss (I discovered this by accident, it confused the hell out of me until I saw the name on the staplers we use at work lol)
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