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18 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, June 10, 1987 O'Malley Assignment: Jcpsn Wsdmsday, Juna 10, 1937 INt Bidding adieu English language -turns into 'Japlish' 1 and proliferates By Ronald E. Yates Chicago Tribune YOKOHAMA laran American heef and rice rnav 7o 908 Q608 Q80s 1008 Miami Expected high Chicago Tribune Graphic; temperatures Source: Central Weatnsr Service not be flowing into Japan in any significant amounts, but the Japanese are importing America's language at a brisk clip. English, or a uniquely Japanese version of it that is referred to here as "Japlish, is proliferating in tls nation of 122 million. Expected conditions tj Tn High end Low pmsura areas Of 3PitlyclOMdy a Chicago outlook Thursday Friday Storms Storms HI TTVLo 64 HI 897LO 67 Saturday Sunday PHyxloudy Storms HlflO'Loeg HI90VLo70" Ana mere are pienry 01 Japanese language puums who wish the government would erect the same kinds of barriers against foreign words that it has against other American imports. But unlike France and South Korea two nations obsessed with maintaining the purity of their languages in a world where Enelish has become the dominant toneue Cloudy Fnndm i 6352 Ruin Wind direction 7863 B382 HighLow temperature Fronts: Expected p.m.

SSTSCoM BMWerm BINBSteUa CNWfO Trtburw Offfrittei eowMt Nrttoml WmMW City, suburban forecast Chicago temperatures of diplomats and businessmen Japan is absorbing foreign words into its everyday lexicon willingly and faster than just about any other country in modern history. One out of every 10 entries in Japanese dictionaries is a foreign word, says Kikuo Nomoto, director of the National Language Research Institute. About percent of the ordinary Japanese citizen's vocabulary consists of foreign-derived words. Aibeito, for example, which is taken from the German word arbeit, meaning work, is a Japanese term for part-time employment Sabisu, the Japanese pronunciation of the English "service," is the free gift or the extra bit of effort a merchant gives to his regular customers. The Japanese also can be heard talking about terabi (television), konpyuta (computer), bata (butter), furaido poteto (fried potatoes), gorufu (goll) and ranchi (lunch).

In addition to hearing foreign words in conversation, the casual observer is bombarded with Japlish phrases written on everything from Let the post-election departures begin. Among the first City Hall honchos to bid farewell to Mayor Harold Washington are Water Department Commissioner Lester Dickinson and Department of Public Health deputy commissioner Dr. Maisha Bennett. INC. hears that the very qualified Dickinson, a former chief construction engineer for the Department of Public Works and former Mayor Jane Byrne's Streets and Sanitation chief, is a tough taskmaster who decided he could no longer tolerate not being in charge of who he could hire.

Bennett's departure, however, is another story. INC. hears Bennett decided to get her neck off the chopping block in the nick of time, because the ax was about to fall on her controversial tenure. A name is a name Unless it's on a ballot. Take Robert Mead, a Louisville accountant and political unknown who recently won the Democratic nomination for Kentucky attorney general.

Before filing his candidacy, Mead legally changed his name to Robert Mead, C.P.A. It worked. Mead defeated seven opponents by a landslide. What's next? A candidate for attorney general with J.J.D. as a legal last name? Vanity thy name is The 43d Ward Republican newsletter, "The 43d Word," has a picture of committeeman Ron Gidwitz and his wife, Christina, at a reception.

The caption: "Ron and Christina-Ward Committeeman and First Lady expecting their second child in early June. Congratulations! First Lady? Money can't buy all sorts of things, to listen to a wealthy guy like Jay Pritzker. At a Monday press conference to announce two $1 million gifts to the Chicago Public Library Fund, Pritzker who is one of the benefactors and whose wife, Cindy, is a member of the Chicago Public Library board, prefaced his remarks at the podium with this marital observation: "Talk about partnership our pillow talk consists of talking about the Chicago Public Library one of the disappointments in life when you reach this age." No one laughed; not even the Pritzkers. Black film dinner blues It was practically Tuesday by the time Monday's dinner was served at the Mumm V.S.O.P. Cognac Salute to Black Film and Filmmakers, where a new twist in meal planning provided for a 2'2-hour program between the appetizer and the main course.

No expense was spared for the glitzy, glamorous black tie event, held at the almost-but-not-quite-a-shop-ping-mall Dearborn Street Station. High profile roll call: Oprah Winfrey (in green contact lenses), publisher John Johnson, Pam Grier, casting exec Reuben Cannon, Robert Townsend and Laurence Olivier soundalikes Brock Kill a Peters, Moses Gunn and Roscoe Lee Browne. WGN Radio's Merri Dee wound up a hooray-for-Chicago pitch with "Who needs Hollywood? Answered Gunn, under his breath, do." Name-dropper of the night (and the competition was was Dee, who reported having been awakened last week by a phone call from Cicely Tyson, then added, but I can't tell you the rest of the conversation." Huh? Am Mostly tunny skies are forecast Wednesday. Winds wiH be from the east at 10 miles an hour. The highs will be 70 to 76 degrees.

Cooler temperatures are expected near Lake Michigan. Skies wiH become Increasingly cloudy Wednesday night. Winds will shift southeast at 10 to IS m.p.h. The tows wiH be 49 to 56. On Thursday, mostly cloudy skies are forecast.

Showers and storms are expected during the morning and then again by early evening. Southerly winds at 10 to 20 m.p.h. are predicted. The highs wiH be 73 to 80. wind recorded at O'Hare.

Wind 2 p.m. 68 60 64 NE16 3 p.m. 66 60 64 NE16 4 p.m. 66 60 65 NE16 5 p.m. 65 60 63 NE15 6 p.m.

63 60 62 NE16 7 p.m. 60 60 60 NE15 8 p.m. 59 60 59 NE15 9 p.m. 57 60 58 N9 Beginning 10 p.m. Monday at O'Hare, lakefront and Midway; Wind Wind 10 p.m.

62 64 65 NE15 6 a.m. 63 60 58 N13 11 p.m. 60 63 63 NE12 7 a.m. 54 59 55 N13 Mdnt 59 62 61 N15 6 a.m. 55 59 57 NE14 1 a.m.

58 61 59 N14 9 a.m. 59 59 59 N12 2 a.m. 56 60 58 N16 10 a.m. 60 59 59 NE17 3 a.m. 55 61 59 N12 11 a.m.

63 60 63 NE15 4 a.m. 54 60 57 N12 Noon 64 60 62 NE16 5 a.m. 53 60 58 N13 1 p.m. 65 60 63 NE15 snoppmg oags 10 i-snins. The prime mover for that phenomenon is Japan's all-powerful advertising agencies, which long ago discovered that in Japan you can make a product enticingly "exotic" by slapping English words on it any English words, no matter how nonsensical.

Regional forecasts Illinois: Wednesday: Partly to mostly sunny, chance of showers west; highs 75 to 85. Wednesday night: Mostly cloudy, showers, storms likely; lows 60 to 67. Thursday: Partly to mostly cloudy, showers, storms; highs 80 to 87. Indiana: Wednesday: Mostly sunny; highs 75 north, 84 south. Wednesday night: Fair; tows 55 to 65.

Thursday: Partly sunny; highs 78 north, 85 south. Wisconsin: Wednesday: Mostly sunny east, cloudy chance of showers west; highs 70 JAPAN Lr 59 to 64. Thursday: Chance of showers, storms; highs 75 to 88. Missouri: Wednesday: Partly to mostly cloudy, chance of showers; highs 74 to 80. Wednesday night and Thursday: Cloudy, showers, storms likely; highs 75 to 80; tows 65 to 70.

Ohio: Wednesday: Mostly sunny; highs 70 to 75. Wednesda night: Fair; lows 45 to 55. Thursday: Increasing cloudiness, chance of showers west; highs 75 to 80. north, 77 south. Wednesday night: Cloudy, showers spreading statewide; tows 55 to 61.

Thursday: Chance of showers, storms; highs 75 to 80. Lower Michigan: Wednesday: Mostly sunny, highs 68 to 75. Wednesday night Increasing cloudiness, chance of showers west, north; tows 47 to 57. Thursday: Mostly cloudy, scattered showers, storms likely; highs 70 to 79. Iowa: Wednesday and Wednesday night: Cloudy, showers likely; highs 70 to 75; lows The result is a sea of shop ping bags, T-shirts and signs emblazoned with phrases that would make Mrs.

MalanroD feel right at home. Regional temperatures 91 65 91 71 90 63 91 73 Michigan Detroit Grand Rapids Lansing St. Ste. Marie Traverse City 90 71 88 63 .18 88 67 85 58 91 69 81 80 81 59 68 56 .04 48 .01 48 .02 40 .07 48 For example a Tokyo shopping bag had the following message in big red letters: "Survival Chic. As old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride, old books to read, and old wine to drink, so are old friends always best to use." Another carried the following: "little Boy Blue come blow up your horn." A 10-minute wait in front of the Ginza's large Mi-r Highest temperatures Monday; lowest temperatures for 24 hours ending 7 a.m.

Tuesday; precipitation ending 7 a.m. Illinois H. Pre. Chicago 91 52 Decatur 92 65 Molina 90 59 Peoria 91 62 .07 Ouincy 89 69 Rockford 89 52 .02 Springfield 92 68 Missouri Cp. Girardeau KahsasCity Springfield St Louis Kentucky Bowling Gm.

Lexington Louisville Paducah EvansviHe Ft. Wayne Indianapolis South Bend Terre haute Wisconsin Green Bay La Crosse Madison Milwaukee 87 65 89 68 89 73 92 66 60 65 54 63 T. 89 91 86 87 76 45 CedarRapids 83 SO Des Moines 84 47 T. Dubuque 83 48 T. StouxCity National forecasts Outlook for June 10: EAST: A cool high pressure front wiH move across the region from upper New England to Maryland, bringing mostly sunny skies.

There is a chance of showers or thunderstorms In the Carolinas. Highs will be in the upper 60s and 70s north, 80s and 90s south. SOUTH: Scattered showers and storms wiH prevaH from central Texas to the Mississippi River Valley. Skies wiH be party to mostly sunny in western Texas and Florida. Highs wiH be in the 80s and 90s.

MIDWEST: A band of showers win stretch from the Dakotas through Nebraska and Kansas to Missouri and western Kentucky. A high pressure front will keep skies mostly sunny In the Great Lakes and upper Ohio Valley areas. Highs wiH be in the 60s and 70s north, 80s south. ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Showers wiH diminish In Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. Howev er, skies wiH remain mostly cloudy.

There Is a chance for showers and thunderstorms In Arizona and New Mexico. Highs will be In the 70s and 80s In the mountains, 90s to low 100s In the desert WEST COAST: Coastal morning fog and cloudiness will give way to mostly sunny skies by afternoon. Partly to mostly sunny skies will prevail over the eastern areas. Highs wW be in the 60s and 70s west, 80s and 90s Inland. Air waves Channel S's Carol Marin, her agent Todd Musbur-ger and WMAQ-TV news director Dick Reingold tsukoshi department store netted T-shirts with such messages as "I like every music, including noises," and "Cheerful Cry Baby" and "Mr.

Zog's original sex wax." "The problem is there are a lot of young Japanese advertising copywriters with only a marginal grasp of English who are stringing words together simply because they sound good to the Japanese ear," said American advertising executive Tim Mayfieldr4it isn't important that the words mean anything; the important thing is that they sound good." That may explain an ad for a noodle product that recently proclaimed: "The rule of Archimedes. Crispy tiny noodle quality sauce walking men, i.e., Archimedes." However, not all in Japan are pleased with these "good sounding" English words and their impact on the Japanese. Recently Japan's Asahi newspaper editorialized about the excessive use of English words by Japanese government ministries in their prodigious production of studies, reports and national plans. National temperatures Highest temperatures Monday; lowest temperatures ending 7 a.m. Tuesday; precipitation for 24 hours ending 7 a.m.

Forest 104 80 sunny 88 65 .54 sunny 86 71 1 shwrs 86 66 sunny 72 561.82 ptcldy oe so .04 ptcray 104 80 72 48 69 44 69 50 68 47 80 59 popped the cork on a bottle of Dom Perignon Tuesday to celebrate her new long-term contract with the station. Marin, who entertained several "serious" offers but decided to stay put, will continue to co-anchor the 4:30 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Ron Magers. By the end of the summer, there'll be not one, but two, unauthorized biographies of Channel 7's Oprah Winfrey in the bookstores. aunnv 73 50 ptcldy ptcldy sunny tstrms 65 65 91 67 67 55 82 49 93 55 63 33 76 61 64 42 78 39 78 57 89 64 90 67 85 65 .07 ptcldy tstrms ptcldy ptcldy sunny .14 sunny 72 55 86 47 .06 ptcldy H.

Pre. June 10 78 64 sunny 68 54 .03 sunny 60 63 .01 ptcldy 54 45 cloudy 84 53 ptcldy 88 65 ptcldy 55 86 60 .01 Otcldv 81 70 20 tstrms 66 62 87 72 73 63 ptcray 62 58 .26 ptcldy 89 72 sunny Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Me. Portland, Ore. Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Shreveport Sioux Falls Spokane Syracuse Tallahassee Tampa Toledo Topeka Tucson Tulsa Marin 81 721.01 tstrms 68 62 62 51 62 48 89 69 81 56 ptcldy ptcldy ptcldy tstrms tstrms 91 71 ptcldy ptcldy ptcldy 73 55 89 60 74 43 Dallas Dayton Denver Duluth Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff Great Falls Greensboro Harrisburg Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Jackson, Miss. Jacksonville Juneau Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Lubbock Miami Beach Midland, Tex.

Minneapolis New Orleans NewYorkClty Norfolk, Va. North Platte Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia 84 69 74 49 80 55 72 51 69 50 73 58 77 42 82 55 80 59 72 52 70 45 84 52 89 73 84 73 89 68 89 68 59 47 98 72 85 69 78 63 62 64 86 75 83 63 77 59 88 71 73 55 74 61 72 57 81 63 76 63 90 72 73 53 89 74 79 71 65 65 86 58 57 46 95 69 90 70 74 62 82 64 74 54 .20 sunnv tstrms sunny .39 tstrms ptcldy ptcldy .91 rain sunny tstrms ptcldy .18 ptcldy otcldv 79 58 .08 sunny 84 55 .19 shwrs H. 68 43 85 59 81 61 57 46 80 60 89 68 74 56 88 71 75 54 84 55 89 68 74 58 85 57 68 53 85 74 67 48 64 45 76 49 90 70 75 52 84 63 73 51 77 55 70 48 91 67 74 49 68 40 City Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage AsheviUe Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlington, Vt. Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte Cheyenne Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, Ohio Concord, NH ptcldy 63 52 69 52 85 71 74 60 75 61 65 45 92 66 89 72 73 47 79 66 101 69 80 65 77 59 83 67 69 45 89 64 89 67 87 60 90 70 102 69 81 78 ptcldy ptcldy .01 sunny cloudy fair tstrms ptcldy 81 66 76 73 77 56 71 56 73 53 82 72 87 73 90 72 92 73 90 66 Washington, DC Wichita Wilkes-Barre cloudy .51 tstrms .19 sunny .94 sunny ptcldy ptcldy sunny ptcldy .17 ptcldy sunny .01 sunny ptcldy .14 sunny .26 ptcldy 82 62 .05 sunny 80 63 1.03 ptcldy 61 50 ptcldy 67 69 .04 cloudy 89 70 .01 sunny 91 73 ptcldy 82 60 1.65 tstrms 87 68 tstrms 88 65 tstrms 88 68 ptcldy 90 71 sunny 72 51 Wilmington, Del. ui ptcray 90 68 58 51 88 68 86 60 92 36 87 67 72 57 National temperature extremes in the 48 "There may be various reasons for using English words but the current situation is that a frightening mother-tongue extinction movement is being carried out by those in power," the newspaper lamented.

Japanese linguist Takao Suzuki said: "Japanese still have a weak sense of self, so they grab onto anything foreign. It can be seen in every facet of life in Japan. Even magazine publishers fear that their publications will not sell unless they have an English name like Friday or Focus, or their covers are not filled with English headlines." Ironically Japanese is far from a pure language, despite Japan's being a closed country until 18S4 when Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his U.S. Navy "blackships" forced the Tokugawa shogun to open the nation's doors to American trade.

For centuries Japan had "borrowed" Chinese words and its kanji characters for writing and expressing ideas. The result is a system of writing that incorporates three systems kanji or Chinese characters, hiragana for Japanese words and katakana for foreign words. "In many ways it's a paradox," Mayfield said. "Here is a society that is gobbling up English as fast as it can and yet, in terms of fundamental changes in the national mentality, you still have a society that regards foreigners with a certain amount of fear, suspicion and in some cases ignorance." contiguous states: Monday's high, 106 degrees at Gila Bend, Tuesday's morning low, 33 degrees at Duluth, Minn. Note to Channel 2's graphics department: Please correct the spelling of the name of the young Grundy County woman whose body was found this week.

Stage mother alert If your daughter looks like Drew Barrymore (curly light-brown shoulder-length hair, 5 feet, 95 pounds), send her picture to Holzer Roche Casting, 700 S. Desplaines Chicago 60607. The producers of "Conspiracy of Love," a TV movie to be shot here, are looking for a photo double for the little "E.T." actress who isn't so little any more. Foul ball The state House Republican and House Democrat-ic staffs two groups who don't usually play ball on most issues faced off Monday night in Springfield for a softball game, a good choice since some suggest neither staff is equipped to play hardball. The Dcms, the sexists, tried walking all the men and pitching to the women.

But justice prevailed in the last inning when Lorl Baker, secretary to State Reps. Margaret Parcells of Glenview and John Countryman of De Kalb, drove in the winnning run with the final score GOPers 8, Dems, 7. Foreign report Worldwide Monday's temperatures for 24 hours ending at midnight City, weather H. Amsterdam, cloudy 59 50 Athens, clear 91 63 Bangkok, clear 90 81 Beijing, dear 90 63 Beirut, clear 81 64 Belgrade, cloudy 90 68 Berlin, cloudy 64 52 Bogota, cloudy 68 50 68 46 68 57 81 59 90 81 59 52 68 54 77 68 79 63 86 77 63 56 77 61 64 37 75 57 72 63 72 55 54 47 61 54 94 73 75 63 108 86 88 59 67 48 63 50 75 60 Santiago, clear Sao Paulo, cloudy Seoul, clear Singapore, dear Stockholm, cloudy Sydney, cloudy Taipei, cloudy Tel Aviv, clear Tokyo, cloudy Vienna, cloudy Warsaw, cloudy 57 41 70 81 69 48 91 64 81 66 55 50 54 39 63 45 63 50 54 19 77 72 82 63 75 59 Johannesburg, dear Kiev, clear Lima, cloudy Lisbon, clear London, cloudy Madrid, clear Manila, cloudy Moscow, clear New Delhi, cloudy Nicosia, dear Oslo, rain Paris, cloudy Rio de Janeiro, rain Brussels, clear Budapest, cloudy Buneos Aires, dear Cairo, clear Caracas, cloudy Copenhagen, clear Dublin, cloudy Frankfurt, cloudy Geneva, rain Helsinki, rain Hong Kong, cloudy Istanbul, clear Jerusalem, clear INClings HERMAN Gardening Phases of the Moon First Full Last Waning New Waxing Tuesday's pollution index Area PSI Rating The Chicago Park District has approved a Madonna concert at Soldier Field for July 31; there'll be reserved seating, not general admission as was the case with- the Bruce Springsteen show. Wednesday birthdays: F.

Lee Bailey, 54; June Haver, 61. On June 19, just days after she graduates from Francis Parker School, Anne Heche will make her debut as Vicky on "Another World." Good gardening weather Is expected Wednesday under partly sunny skies. Southeast winds at 10 to 15 miles an hour will aid the drying process. The best time for spraying will be during the morning when winds are lighter. The dry weather may be stressful to shallow rooted plants.

Extra watering should alleviate any problems. Highs wiH be in the upper 60s and 70s. 18 19-25 26 month. .65 tacTuM uejir'e Jun.4 11 Calendar Lake County 37 North Chicago suburbs 34 South Side Chicago 33 West south Suburbs 39 Doating Winners' Circle For the Illinois end Indiana shores of Lake Michigan: Southeasterly winds at 10 to 15 knots wiH cause a light chop In Chicago harbors Wednesday. Waves on the open lake will be 2 to 3 feet.

The high's wiH be in the upper 60s, The lakefront water temperature on Tuesday was 58 degrees. Dally Lottery June 9, 1987 Pollution standards 'total, 9.35 Inches. June normal, 4.08 Inches; departure from normal Jan. 1 Wrourjh May 31, minus Cooling-degree day units: Monday at O'Hare: month, 53; season, 175. At Midway: month, 66; season, 199.

Heating-degree day units: Monday at O'Hare: none; month, 2, season, 5..771. At Midway: none; month, season, 6,648. Highest wind velocity: 17 m.p.h. from the northeast at 10:22 D.m. Pick 4 June 9, 1987 1834 Index PSI ranges and raiinas: u-su.

oooa iui: bid 446 Tuesday, June 10, 1987 Sunrise, sunset, moon set, 3:45 a.m.; moonrise, 9:40 p.m. Morning planets: Jupiter and Venus. Evening planets: Mars, Mercury and Saturn. For 18 hours ended 7 p.m. June 9: Average temperature: 59 degrees; normal, 67 degrees; month's excess, 36; year's excess, 764 degrees.

Relative humidity. 7 a.m., 69 percent; 1 p.m., 38 percent; 7 p.m., 42 percent. Precipitation: none; 51-100, moderate Ml; 101-199. unhealthv 7U1: 200-299, very unhealthy JVj; 300-500, hazardous Causes: C-carbon monoxide; O-ozone; P-pamcu-lates; S-sulfur dioxide. Aviation Skies will become Increasingly cloudy above 12,000 feet Wednesday.

Visibilities wW be good at seven miles or better. Southeasterly surface winds will prevaH at 10 to 15 knots. Turbulence will be light. Be sure to obtain a formal briefing before your flight. Michigan Lottery Dally-3 June 817 Dally.

4 June 9 4708 "I'll do your gallstones and your wife's broken pelvis for your left kidney Barometer 7 a.m., 30.21; 7 p.m., 30.26 1.