Awhile back, I watched an anime about camping. It was chill, and cute, and I enjoyed it. But every time they stopped to discuss some kind of camping equipment, it was all English loan words, and it drove me a bit bonkers.
What do you mean Japanese just straight up borrowed the phrase “ground tarp” from English??? Surely they already have words for that!
I’m learning Korean, in South Korea they use so much English vocabulary and it’s all spelled phonetically, for example table (yes they use that word) becomes 테이블 (teibeul) and then you have to pronounce it like a Korean word which always sounds a little weird. Japanese is similar, but the possible syllables in Japanese are much more limited so it ends up sounding even weirder and sometimes isn’t immediately recognisable as English.
They may have. Several Japanese words for everyday objects are taken from other languages despite having earlier words for those things. E.g. bread is pan (from Portuguese) and ball is boru (English).
Though my personal favorite is black hole. Despite having different words for black and hole, black hole is translated as burakkuhoru
Awhile back, I watched an anime about camping. It was chill, and cute, and I enjoyed it. But every time they stopped to discuss some kind of camping equipment, it was all English loan words, and it drove me a bit bonkers.
What do you mean Japanese just straight up borrowed the phrase “ground tarp” from English??? Surely they already have words for that!
I’m learning Korean, in South Korea they use so much English vocabulary and it’s all spelled phonetically, for example table (yes they use that word) becomes 테이블 (teibeul) and then you have to pronounce it like a Korean word which always sounds a little weird. Japanese is similar, but the possible syllables in Japanese are much more limited so it ends up sounding even weirder and sometimes isn’t immediately recognisable as English.
They may have. Several Japanese words for everyday objects are taken from other languages despite having earlier words for those things. E.g. bread is pan (from Portuguese) and ball is boru (English).
Though my personal favorite is black hole. Despite having different words for black and hole, black hole is translated as burakkuhoru