A lot of people don't seem to realize that the USA and Japan were forever interlinked like big brother little brother since Mathew Perry forced his way in and then Pearl Harbor really sealed the deal.
We have been a quitincential part of Japanese culture for literally since the civil war.
Which means about 10% of Japanese words are American English downsampled into Katakana, because Japanese only has 5 pure vowels, A as in Talk/Taco, E as in Enemy, O as in Oh!/Taco, U as in KungFu/ Truth, and ii(long E), as in Suzuki/Kawasaki/Fuji/Nami(yes the joke is that these are japanese words that we use in english).
About 40% of Japanese is basically old Chinese converted in to Japanese sounds, so this is nothing new for Japanese.
Also Japanese education follows American English standard when it comes to English standards and words and pronouncations.
So they have expressly had a really strong reason for this for so long.
If you're american who loves anime honestly learning japanese is kinda really awesome because it really puts in a lot of fun knowledge into shows.
So he took a dictionary with him and japanese people just put random english words in their language for no reason or what? Do you think I believe no american has ever been in Japan prior to 1945?
Do you think I believe no american has ever been in Japan prior to 1945?
Yes, I do. Only someone so obtuse would type something as dumb as this.
So he took a dictionary with him and japanese people just put random english words in their language for no reason or what?
Matthew Perry opened Japan for trade with America at gunpoint when they were closed to all others (except a handful of Portugese missionaries who were subjected to essentially a generous house arrest). Of fucking course some cognates moved over from trade with Americans. Learn to Google basic 7th grade history.
Possibly, but Japan has had close contact with the Americans long before WWII as well. The first ironclad warship of the IJN was a ship purchased by the Confederatcy, but delivered after the American Civil war ended which then was resold to Japan in 1867.
This is true, and they did "import" a lot of american specialists (mainly for train and postal knowledge), but still most pre ww2 English words are from British english.
No, they are not. Britain never had strong trade with Japan who famously closed it's borders to all trade until an AMERICAN Matthiew Perry opened Japan to trade with AMERICA
are you thinking higher or lower? because depending on the topic of a newspaper column those will vary. if tech it'll be WAY higher, if rural life then lower
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u/LMGDiVa 5h ago edited 4h ago
A lot of people don't seem to realize that the USA and Japan were forever interlinked like big brother little brother since Mathew Perry forced his way in and then Pearl Harbor really sealed the deal.
We have been a quitincential part of Japanese culture for literally since the civil war.
Which means about 10% of Japanese words are American English downsampled into Katakana, because Japanese only has 5 pure vowels, A as in Talk/Taco, E as in Enemy, O as in Oh!/Taco, U as in KungFu/ Truth, and ii(long E), as in Suzuki/Kawasaki/Fuji/Nami(yes the joke is that these are japanese words that we use in english).
About 40% of Japanese is basically old Chinese converted in to Japanese sounds, so this is nothing new for Japanese.
Also Japanese education follows American English standard when it comes to English standards and words and pronouncations.
So they have expressly had a really strong reason for this for so long.
If you're american who loves anime honestly learning japanese is kinda really awesome because it really puts in a lot of fun knowledge into shows.