The Japanese word for "stapler" is "hotchikisu" from the English "Hotchkiss" who was a man who owned a stapler company that first sold staplers in Japan about 100 years ago. "Roman" means "Romanticism." It was taken from English and then shortened. For example, what do you think "Roman" in Japanese means? Most Americans hearing that would instantly think of citizens of Italy's capitol, but that would be "Roomajin" in Japanese. I guess you could call it "wasei eigo" - English made in Japan. In Japanese, the English word hard as "haado" is used in many uses that it isn't used in English (in this case more like "hardcore" meaning that he's a really rough masculine gay). If you want to say specifically "homosexual", you get "douseiaisha" (literally the symbols for "same sex lover"). "Gei" in Japanese has the same sound as "gay" in English. One of the words for "gay" in Japanese is "gei", from the English.
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