>At 07:09 AM 1/24/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know the ethymological origin of the word bokeh? Is it
>>possibly a screw up of the French bouquet, as used for wines?
>>
>>
>>Andras Iklody-Szabo
>>Caracas / Venezuela
>>
>
>Hi Andras,
>
>Why "screw up"? The Japanese have appropriated lots of European words. If
>its origin is from French "bouquet", it seems actually a very ingenious
>example of synaesthesis (where traits of one of the senses are transferred
>to another -- in this case, smell to sight).
>
>OM content ... um
>
>Joel
Sorry, screw-up was referring to the spelling, not the transferred meaning,
which, if true, is quite ingenious.
Andras
Andras Iklody-Szabo
Caracas / Venezuela
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