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Mercury Hat wrote:Plus insulting someone in a foreign language is pointless and juvenile. It's great and all that you can parrot back naughty words you've heard, but they don't really have the same impact. Without knowing the language and the culture near-fluently, the purpose and the intent of the insult are both entirely lost.
I do this. It's the only way I have to swear at coworkers without getting fired.
Mercury Hat wrote:This is the same with mindlessly using any foreign word: you remove it from its linguistic and cultural context, plonk it down in your own, and expect it to carry the same weight when it almost certainly cannot. Words are very much a part of culture, they don't exist in a vacuum, and butchering the language because you heard it in some anime will only serve to amplify your ignorance of it.
But... that's how the english language grows! We steal words and phrases from other languages, frequently bastardize the hell out of them, and use them as if they were part of our own language.
I probably would have let the bad Japanese slide if the poster had not "corrected" someone else's Japanese in the same post--and got the correction wrong (starting with the error that a correction was needed in the first place).
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It's the only way I have to swear at coworkers without getting fired.
