Japanese termins
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Japanese termins
Whats up, I wanted to ask you why we Westerners use Japanese terms that come from Japan for things related to anime, eg: settei or seiyuu (although we also use the term "voice actor"), I wonder why we use these terms if they mean the same as in the west.
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Re: Japanese termins
Posing.
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Re: Japanese termins
The same reason why any other loanwords are used; because they are commonly used for something foreign and adopted uncritically, people think they sound cool, or sometimes just carry a specific connotation that a translated term would not have; for example the word kaiju describes a narrower scope of entities than "giant monster"
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Re: Japanese termins
pwhodges wrote:Posing.
Facts. The same reason why I use the Japanese names for the movies
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Re: Japanese termins
To telegraph that we are weebs to other weebs so we can make more weeb friends.
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