Colour me informed. I've only ever heard it used in a martial arts background, given I'm hardly the demographic for the anime.Saelune said:
Senpai may be added to the English dictionary
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The dictionary is already full of ridiculous nonsense words that should never have been acknowledged to exist, anyway. Words like selfie, manspread, bruh, and swole. The chance to have the official record of our language not sound like it came from a bunch of mouth breathing morons has already passed.
Up until this point in life I had been fortunate enough to have never encountered the word "swole" before. Thank you for ruining that for me.infohippie said:
If "bae" can be a word in the Oxford dictionary, then I have absolutely no problems with "Senpai" being included.
English is already a hodge-podge of different language words being thrown into a mixer over the centuries, and like all languages it is constantly evolving. If enough people recognise a word due to its popular use, why should not be added to the dictionary?
Although what pisses me off is when enough people say a word but mean the opposite, and because enough people use the word wrong it becomes a new definition. It may be IRONIC, but if people don't stop misusing words so that it completely alters their meaning I will LITERALLY explode with rage. (See what I did there?)
Edit: Here's a handy link for people who think we shouldn't appropriate words from other languages. You are to stop using these words immediately - http://www.englishleap.com/vocabulary/foreign-language-words
English is already a hodge-podge of different language words being thrown into a mixer over the centuries, and like all languages it is constantly evolving. If enough people recognise a word due to its popular use, why should not be added to the dictionary?
Although what pisses me off is when enough people say a word but mean the opposite, and because enough people use the word wrong it becomes a new definition. It may be IRONIC, but if people don't stop misusing words so that it completely alters their meaning I will LITERALLY explode with rage. (See what I did there?)
Edit: Here's a handy link for people who think we shouldn't appropriate words from other languages. You are to stop using these words immediately - http://www.englishleap.com/vocabulary/foreign-language-words
... excuse me my good sir but THE English Dictionary is the hhhOxford dictionary thank you very much.
In all seriousness this is pretty cool. Seeing stuff in other cultures that we like and then quietly stealing it and passing it off as our own is in an English tradition.
Sensei must have been in most English dictionaries for ages by this point right?
In all seriousness this is pretty cool. Seeing stuff in other cultures that we like and then quietly stealing it and passing it off as our own is in an English tradition.
Sensei must have been in most English dictionaries for ages by this point right?
This.Zhukov said:
The way people are acting, you'd think we're on the verge of an <link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English>Anglish revolution.
Here [http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/activities/lang/twentieth/loanwords.html] is an incomplete list of words English loaned from the 20th century.
If this any dumber than turning the German noun for lightning into a verb for rapid action?
Also I just learned that the word "Angst" is actually a 20th century German loanword, one that we've apparently butchered.
If this any dumber than turning the German noun for lightning into a verb for rapid action?
Also I just learned that the word "Angst" is actually a 20th century German loanword, one that we've apparently butchered.
Here [http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/activities/lang/twentieth/loanwords.html] is an incomplete list of words English loaned from the 20th century.
If this any dumber than turning the German noun for lightning into a verb for rapid action?
Also I just learned that the word "Angst" is actually a 20th century German loanword, one that we've apparently butchered.
If this any dumber than turning the German noun for lightning into a verb for rapid action?
Also I just learned that the word "Angst" is actually a 20th century German loanword, one that we've apparently butchered.
My understanding is that the notion of "seniority" pervades through a lot of Japanese culture, and well beyond high school- that "junior" employees are implicitly expected to serve drinks to "senior" employees at the semi-mandatory company social outings, for example.
Without *quite* the same notions in the west, it does sound a little silly when there are already perfectly adequate terms to express seniority.
Which is, y'know, what the word actually means.
Without *quite* the same notions in the west, it does sound a little silly when there are already perfectly adequate terms to express seniority.
Which is, y'know, what the word actually means.
...And? A single word is being added to a book containing tens of thousands of words. I'm more annoyed that the informal definition of literally (IE not really literally) is in the dictionary now.
Overrated? You know, you might as well have come out and say "He's popular but my opinion doesn't match up with the majority opinion" instead of acting like there's something wrong with the people who do like him. Because that's what overrated means. It's basically you saying "the majority opinion is wrong." And as someone who doesn't think he's overrated, IE someone who you just said was wrong, I take issue with that.inu-kun said:
And how is he an elitist snob? Because he dared to criticize anime and not like the overall direction it's going in? Not seeing it.
erttheking said:
I can't tell whether the both of you actually think that quote is real or not. It's not, its a troll quote that came around after Miyazaki did an interview criticizing the current industry. Not anywhere near that broad or harshly though, mostly he just talked about the industry creating characters without seeming to know how real people act.inu-kun said:
If you see any quotes about Miyazaki saying he hates otaku or that anime is trash or a mistake, then its a fake quote generally used to try and piss off anime fans.
For god's sake, this exact image is on the Know Your Meme page, and that page is the first result when searching the quote.
Truth be told I was thinking more about the criticism he made about the industry being obsessed with sexualizing young girls, but I did not know the quote was a fake. Thanks!EternallyBored said:
Don't think I've seen that one, if you've got a link I would like to see it, the one that inspired images like in the OP was this:erttheking said:
"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ?Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don?t spend time watching real people, you can?t do this, because you?ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It?s produced by humans who can?t stand looking at other humans. And that?s why the industry is full of otaku!."
I can see why people would disagree with him, but the quote is so much more eloquent and well thought out than the "anime was a mistake" pictures make it seem.