originally posted in:Japanese Guardians
"Chinese fortune cookies" are an American invention, created, I believe in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1900s. Some historians even give credit of its invention to a Japanese immigrant.
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My point wasn't that they were made here or not. My point was that they are a very common product and would have had to have seen the language at least once. Not a history lesson.
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Sorry, but I meant no offense nor criticism. I just found it amusing that you would use the American-born fortune cookie to illustrate your example. Really, I meant no offense. I speak and read some Japanese, and can tell the difference, spoken and written, between Chinese (both Madarin and Cantonese), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, etc. Again, sorry. I meant no harm.
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No problem, no harm done.