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After a few minutes of that sort of thing I want to NUKE THEM TO HELL. | 167 | 30.31% | |
It's only annoying when it's really excessive. | 247 | 44.83% | |
It's interesting, like a sort of anime slang, but I wouldn't say it myself. | 44 | 7.99% | |
Using Nihongo in my sentences is cooool ^____^ You are a chibi baka! | 42 | 7.62% | |
おばけアメリカンのだ、日本語わかれない | 51 | 9.26% | |
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2008-12-11, 04:15 | Link #465 |
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You know, its really hard to read posts where people use the term "jap" without them sounding incredibly racist.... just noting that many people file that term in the same category as "wop" "dago" "chink" and other dehumanizing terms. I realize most people are just typing lazy .... but keep that in mind, please.
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2008-12-11, 04:31 | Link #466 | |
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2008-12-11, 05:03 | Link #467 | |
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(more an american/japanese reference?) To be honest, I don't think many here would even note that it carries an offence. At least for me, it's simply a case of shortening down 'english' (by language or people, since we're 'english' or 'british') and japanese' to 3 letters. Eng and Jap. Sometimes, i use UK/JP - when referring to the countries themselves, else i don't think most people aim to offend when shortening down the word. Eitherway duly noted.
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2008-12-11, 05:29 | Link #469 |
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I've always loved the title of this thread. It completely skips over the question of asking, "Is it annoying when people inject Japanese into their speech," and goes straight to asking, "How annoying is it?"
Just sayin'. Since it seemed less troublesome than off-topic discussion already in progress.
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2008-12-11, 05:43 | Link #470 | |
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2008-12-11, 13:57 | Link #471 |
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Spoiler for Since the explanation of the term "jap" is being hinted as off-topic by our mod:
As far as the topic... it totally depends on the context. Learning to speak japanese with others or less than proficient? Then its going to be a mix of japanese with english thrown in when the word won't come. Learning to speak english? Then its going to be a mix of english with the japanese thrown in. But yes, the people running up and down the hall screaming 'baka" obviously don't realize that the term is either a serious insult (or a term of endearment to someone so close they understand the intent). The rest of it I'm rather ambivalent on - though I'll often ask if they're *taking* Japanese or trying to learn the language and recommend they do. Otherwise, they sound kind of like the silly people I grew up with in Texas who thought it was funny to randomly use horribly pronounced Spanish terms.
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2008-12-14, 10:26 | Link #475 | |
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Anyways, what do you people think of wasei-eigo?
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2008-12-14, 12:47 | Link #478 | |
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This is just an opinion, I think having many different words that are unnecessarily remained intact from other country shows cultural division. It is showing that something from other cultures are not part of their own culture and it gives feeling of something foreign. Of course one could make different argument saying that by having different words from different culture it shows cultural acceptance and lead to more globalization. Actually I don't mind the term gook at all . I don't know maybe because today's kid tend to use the racial term more loosely so all those term lost some of the offensiveness.
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2008-12-14, 15:49 | Link #479 |
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It has less to do with the word itself and more with the situation it's invoked in as well as the tone that it's said in. Really, nearly any word or term can be made quite offensive. The reason why racial slurs are more offensive than random words is because there's a history of hatred associated with them. These words can still be used playfully or even lovingly, but if you use them on people with whom a relationship of trust has not been established then it will almost certainly come off as derogatory, as though you are identifying that person by all of the negative traits of their ethnic background.
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2008-12-14, 19:41 | Link #480 | |
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Its not really a matter of whether you mind, its more a matter that other people do. And by do, I actually mean do, not 'possibly could'. There are terms that some people might find offensive sometimes, like Italian versus Italian-American or black versus African-American, but 'gook' and 'jap' and the like have a long history of offensiveness, and pain people deeply. |
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