Like most dynamic languages Japanese is big on loan words, but whereas they used to come from Chinese today they're mostly coming from English.

Do you have a kompyuta (computer) on your desuku (desk)?  Maybe there is a karar-terebi (color TV) on your teburu (table)?

In fact no one sang Karaoke before 1981 because the Japanese hadn't invented it yet, the name coming from kara (void) and oke, short for okesutora (orchestra) -- so B is correct.






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