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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Anglo is a lot closer to French than Japanese . . .
I think what people hate the most about "weeaboos" is that they learn the language only for purposes of watching cartoons, instead of actually getting to know real Japanese people or culture . . . whereas most of the languages you listed here (what is xiexie?) are frequently used to explore different cultures.
I get what you're saying, but there's a definite method to the madness.
so NO, I will NOT continue to say thank you in other various languages
I'm probably calling out the
If you learn Spanish or French, people figure you probably took that in school. Meaning you learned it in a highly respectable educational environment. OR, of course you could be speaking English well as a second language, or learned the other language because of countries you've lived in, or you have relatives or friends that speak that language. Many languages are spoken in various countries thanks to conquest.
The Japanese, through history, tired to conquer other places, but have never really succeeded, so Japanese is only spoken in Japan. If you are an English speaker, there is virtually no way you are going to have ANY Japanese family! And you only WISH you had friends who spoke Japanese
The reason people act like that with Japanese is because, if you are peppering your English with Japanese, they can be 99% sure you got all your foreign words from a CARTOON, or looked them up because of one, and that's... well... kinda silly, inherently, isn't it? I know it's silly too, because I'm one of those people!!!
Also, the Japanese speaking English (badly) in anime isn't really relevant because they might not have made the anime for English speakers. They made it for Japanese speakers, so... it's actually kinda none of our business, but we watch it anyway 'cause we love it. But English is different. English is the most influential language in the world. Japanese is not. If you don't learn English, you're kinda missing out. Japanese is the most influential language in cartoons, and if you don't learn it, you're missing out on anime and weird video games.
I hear Japan makes almost 60% of the world's cartoons, and America makes most of the rest. Nobody's learning Dutch because The Netherlands produces 55% of the world's cartoons and everybody loves them so much. Only Japan gets that.
People just get annoyed by us using Japanese words because it got old to them quickly, it's awkward to them, and they think we're trying to be something we're not. Plus, Japanese is probably the only foreign language they can recognize ( XD: