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
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