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Not sure about native Japanese reading... Katakana for ME and TA exist, anyway. | Not sure about native Japanese reading... Katakana for ME and TA exist, anyway. | ||
===Globality=== | ===Globality=== | ||
The four letters M E T A are shared by the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, and are pronounced the same, too (unlike e.g. "H", which is "n" in Cyrillic, "X" which is "kh" etc). Thus META is a universal word (the capitals are crucial, because small letters differ greatly between e.g. Cyrillic and Latin) | The four letters M E T A are shared by the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, and are pronounced the same, too (unlike e.g. "H", which is "n" in Cyrillic, "X" which is "kh" etc). Thus META is a universal word (the capitals are crucial, because small letters differ greatly between e.g. Cyrillic and Latin) : while the word "metaphor" is spelled and pronounced with slight variations in various European languages, the prefix META is a cultural invariant :) | ||
===Versatility=== | ===Versatility=== | ||
One may note the many anagrams one can form with those 4 letters : MEAT, TEAM, MATE, TAME... | One may note the many anagrams one can form with those 4 letters : MEAT, TEAM, MATE, TAME... | ||