At 10:45 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote:

I have a dictionary in front of me at this very moment.  It lists
"transformation" as a definition for "hentai".

Literally, the Kanji can be taken as "strange form."  Hen means
strange or weird, "tai" is form.  I've never seen it as
"transformation," and according to a friend of mine (who is Japanese
and lives over there), that dictionary is not correct.

-Deuce

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