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Posted in: Too much katakana contributing to Japan's malaise See in context

noborito they are using loan words not trying to abandon their language and adopt English. it is japanese language and makes you look stupid for not understanding this. please check the eytomology of your beloved english. practically none of the words sound like the original. really you just sound like a racist ethnocentric with this line of argument. you might as well say, stop speaking japanese and speak perfect english, because it doesnt sound like the original word and makes you look dumb. it makes as much sense to say, stop speaking english, you should speak a hodgepodge of latin, greek, middle english, french, spanish etc...you look foolish in the business world because you are mispronouncing other languages...come on now

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Posted in: Too much katakana contributing to Japan's malaise See in context

The Americans really came out in force to bash this old man. Otohiko Kaga has every right to his views and as Americans you really have no frame of reference for living under foreign occupation for decades, so how can you pretend to know what effects it would have on the national psyche? Then there are those who express their own contempt for katakana and idignation of the "butchering" of English pronunciation. If you removed all the words from English that are pronounced differently from the words they are derived from, you would have no language left. Some even trotted out the tired old term "Engrish" which is really just thinly veiled biggotry and ethnocentrism at its worst. You seem to be riduculing a people for mispronouncing sounds that don't even exist in their native language. I think the way Japanese people have combined half sized kana with regular characters to produce new sounds is quite ingenious and I am very sure if you attempt to learn Japanese language you will "butcher" the pronunciation no matter how long you live here, or how many people tell you how great you can speak the language. Sorry I went off on a tangent, but the most vocal posts on this article seem to be from people in the worst posistion to judge its validity. Japan is an isolated nation and contact with foreigners has historically been somewhat traumatic for them. I don't see this article's views as much different from a lot of American's ideas that social ills in America can be blamed on illegal immigrants, outsourcing to China etc....

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