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Subject: RE: [OM] New boy on the block
From: Andras Iklody-Szabo <isza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:13:35 -0400
>Here is what Jim Terazawa had to say a while back:
>
>>>
>Here we go again..
>
>Boke in photographic/art context:
>boke (pronounced bokeh)
>boke: [noun] out of focus
>boke-ru: [verb, present tense] become out of focus
>boke-ta: [verb, past tense, past participle; adjective] became out of focus
>boke-mi: [noun] some degree of being out of focus
>
>Regards,
>Jim Terazawa
><<
>
>Giles
>
>Andras Iklody-Szabo 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


Thanks, Giles! That brings us to a Japanese source. Is that the original,
or is it adapted from another language?

Andras

Andras Iklody-Szabo
Caracas / Venezuela



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