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[Plywood]

uguu~

 

[johnsmith]

Let's not pretend that Japan doesn't constantly do terrible things to the English language.

 

[Crocodile]

Well, yes, but I'd prefer loan words to not be from anime

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How is it nobody did this before me?

 

[thetrin]

Still better than what happens when Japanese people go creative with English.

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.

Oh yeah, you just have to. They often don't make the connection with the original English.

Let's not pretend that Japan doesn't constantly do terrible things to the English language.

The constant abuse of the English language is an everyday thing for me living in japan.

 

[Ratrat]

Please stop bastardizing the Japanese language.

I wonder if these words are even used that much, outside of anime, in Japan.

Of course they are.

 

[T-Rex.]

I wonder if these words are even used that much, outside of anime, in Japan.

 

[spekkeh]

Wait, it originated with anime? I thought it was just a word that meant upperclassman or senior at work.

Same as that sensei doesn't have anything particular to do with martial arts.

How do you pronounce this? Sen-pay, sen-pie, some other way?

Sem pie.

This is the correct pronunciation, because the written np is spoken as mp in Japanese. (it's actually more ai than ie)

 

[Darksol]

I wonder if these words are even used that much, outside of anime, in Japan.

In every school and workplace in Japan. So yes, it's used a bit

 

[Itaremustbedangeres]

Still better than what happens when Japanese people go creative with English.

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.

Understandably so! I mean, that's part of why katakana is used (at least to my understanding, currently learning japanese). It starts to get weird if westerners use it in their respective countries haha.

 

[T-Rex.]

In every school and workplace in Japan. So yes, it's used a bit

Well not just senpai but stuff like sugoi, kakkoii, kawaii etc which you can't even go 5 minutes without hearing in most anime.

 

[ZoronMaro]

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.

Trying to pronounce English words the English way in Japan, is like if I started asking all my friends to go to the bar because it's "ka-ra-o-ke" night.

If you're speaking Japanese, to Japanese people, then speak Japanese. Nobody likes that guy who randomly inserts french words with a flourishing accent just because he took French in college. I don't care if they say it that way in France Andrew, you're speaking English and sound like a douche.

That said I'm all for languages stealing things from each other and bastardizing definitions to suit the culture stealing it, in fact that's the exact reason I hate Andrew so much.

 

[blamite]

be the senpai you want to be noticed by

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

lol

 

[Ratrat]

Switchig accents in the middle of a sentence is annoying and stupid.

 

[Zelias]

I love this.

 

[random25]

When's waifu?

 

[spekkeh]

Still better than what happens when Japanese people go creative with English.

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.

Hmm I kept hearing this so I tried ordering a Cora instead of a Cola once.

Cora o kudasai.
Nande?
Cora.
Huh?
Co-ra.
Etto, wakaramisen..
A Cola please!
Oh you wanto a Cora.
¬_¬

 

[Langdon Alger]

'A.T. Field' as synonym for fear of rejection.

 

[Acosta]

A truly enlightened era, we did it guys!

 

[Pachael]

this is your fault atlus

I'm surprised to not find a Rise 'senpai' compliation. She must say that about 100 times in P4(G) or something.

 

[MikeHattsu]

 

[M0nochromatic]

Still better than what happens when Japanese people go creative with English.

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.

I can't *PBTTTT* understand *PBTTTT* what your saying *PBTTTT*.

 

[teruterubozu]

I wonder if these words are even used that much, outside of anime, in Japan.

Senpai is very colloquial. There's nothing anime about it.

 

[so1337]

All you haters, kore kara mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

 

[Langdon Alger]

I think this guy spearheaded the popularity of 'senpai' in the US.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-f8KuLbDH8

 

[Mabufu]

waifu and husbando next pls

That would be fucking amazing hahahah

'A.T. Field' as synonym for fear of rejection.

Or social anxiety, anime have words for everything < 3

 

[Sölf]

So we noticed senpai. But did he notice us?

 

[Trigonometrize.]

I for a long time thought a senpai was just someone you had a crush on because of the stupid meme.

 

[Sapiens]

Oh my nuggies.

 

[Darksol]

Well not just senpai but stuff like sugoi, kakkoii, kawaii etc which you can't even go 5 minutes without hearing in most anime.

I hear most of that every day as well. Incredibly common. It may be overused and emphasized in anime, but it's still everyday basic adjectives that are used quite a bit.

 

[John Kowalski]

I once crushed hard on a senpai. It didn't turn out well.

 

[Madao]

reading this thread, the only thing that comes to mind is...

Yare Yare Daze

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how long until that one is in the dictionary? translator's note: it means "give me a break!"

 

[Firemind]

This is payback for stealing our songs.

https://youtu.be/Hu_9It7xxvo
https://youtu.be/PN-NtEDYT3U
https://youtu.be/WhE4wdzDso8

 

[Dennis]

Next up:

Waifu
Nani?!

 

[ZoronMaro]

This is payback for stealing our songs.

https://youtu.be/Hu_9It7xxvo
https://youtu.be/PN-NtEDYT3U
https://youtu.be/WhE4wdzDso8

The world seemed so much brighter 5 minutes ago...
Why would you show us this...

 

[Violet_0]

This was my first thought.

The second thought was "oh right this is how the English language works", as in breaking into the homes of other languages and pilfering whatever words it likes. It already broke into Japan for tsunami, sushi, and karaoke, now it's back for some more words to make off with.

more like breaking into other language's homes and replacing their words with yours

 

[BGBW]

I just need one of these dictionaries to add ''moe' so people can stop using it wrong, or at least when they do I can come round their house and hit them on the head with a nice hardback book.

 

[Nomadic Sparks]

Anime is a horrible mistake until there's a Tecmo Super Bowl or Bo Jackson anime or Manga thing imo

 

[StayDead]

senpai pls

 

[MikeHattsu]

I just need one of these dictionaries to add ''moe' so people can stop using it wrong, or at least when they do I can come round their house and hit them on the head with a nice hardback book.

But what if the dictionary uses the wrong term?

 

[dani_dc]

Still better than what happens when Japanese people go creative with English.

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.

People didn't understand what country I was from until I switch from "Portugal" to "Porutogaru".
They're naturally more used to local pronunciations of words than the "correct" ones.

 

[Nudull]

This is all your fault, anime fans!

 

[Chairmanchuck]

Anyone knows these weebs that use it after learning japanese for 1 week:

"Hey. Ken-Kun from "random visual kei" band is so kawaii ^_^"
"Dayo neeeeee~~~?"
"I think their music is quite sugoi!"

 

[BGBW]

But what if the dictionary uses the wrong term?

Angry emails. Lots of angry emails.

 

[Langdon Alger]

I just need one of these dictionaries to add ''moe' so people can stop using it wrong, or at least when they do I can come round their house and hit them on the head with a nice hardback book.

I seem to remember a thread on GAF about what 'moe' meant. It was a huge thread and was full of people arguing, and a consensus about what the word meant was never reached.

 

[Misuta]

This is payback for stealing our songs.

https://youtu.be/Hu_9It7xxvo
https://youtu.be/PN-NtEDYT3U
https://youtu.be/WhE4wdzDso8

It's funny and cringeworthy at the same time.

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My ears...

 

[Busaiku]

I just need one of these dictionaries to add ''moe' so people can stop using it wrong, or at least when they do I can come round their house and hit them on the head with a nice hardback book.

It would define it as cute girls.

 

[Tacitus_]

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James D. Nicoll

 

[Rebel Leader]

It would define it as cute girls.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

I just need one of these dictionaries to add ''moe' so people can stop using it wrong, or at least when they do I can come round their house and hit them on the head with a nice hardback book.

Moe
adjective | mo-e | m&#333;-ay

Definition
: the cancer that is killing contemporary anime