May 5th is the Children's Day, so today I introduce some children to you. They have English blood but have been brought up in Japan. They are pitiful children, because they aren't understood by their parents. They are not recognized as their real children, and are even hated by their English or American parents who learn the Japanese language. Please see the following sentenses.

"Taking his luggage from a coin locker, a man who was wearing G-pants started to run with his my-car. Pato-car run after it. He might have failed to turn the handle, therefore his car crashed into a gasoline stand and it was seriously damaged. If a person of mass-comi happend to see it, he or she had a shutter chance. It was an accidnet that occured in golden week."
(translated from Tensei-jingo in the Asahi April 7,1995)

How many children who were born from English do you find in these sentenses ? Do you love them ? Can you guess what each word means ?

1 coin locker
2 G-pants
3 my-car
4 pato-car(patrol car)
5 handle
6 gasoline stand
7 mass-comi (mass communication)
8 Golden Week

(1=coin-operated locker 2=jeans 3= private car 4= police car 5=steering wheel 6= gas station 7= mass media 8= a series of holidays during the latter part of April and the beginning of May.) In England, Kenbridge University Press has published "Interational English Dictionary". English made many children in many foreign coutries. There are 144 Japanese-English words in this book. These loanwords often cause some confusion between Japanese and English language. But I can also say that they are proof that Japanese people are flexible and tolerant.