tatamiser

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French

Etymology

From tatami +‎ -iser, from Japanese (tatami mat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.ta.mi.ze/
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Verb

tatamiser

  1. (informal) to be or to become Japanese in culture or style; to Japanize
    • 1991, Bernard Quemada, quoting Madame Figaro (July 7, 1990), Matériaux pour l'histoire du vocabulaire français: Néologismes du français contemporain, volume 37, page 305:
      Dès lors, elle est saisie d’une rage d’apprendre: non pour denevir japonaise, se ‘tatamiser’ comme disent les Occidentaux, mais pour comprendre et communiquer.
      From that time, she was seized with a passion to learn: not to become Japanese, to ‘nipponize’ as they say in the West, but to understand and communicate.
    • 2012, Régis Arnaud, “François Caron: le premier Français converti au Japon”, in Le Figaro:
      François Caron, lui, au contraire, se «tatamise», apprend le japonais et fonde un foyer avec une autochtone, à qui il fait six enfants.
      François Caron, on the contrary, ‘Japanizes’; he learns Japanese and makes his home with a local woman, with whom he has six children.

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