By: Liz
Well, I fist would like to start out to say this: Everyone
in this
so-called "SM community" has commited this crime. Even I
have. But that is
not the point. The point is that people find it cool,
attractive if you
will, to use Japanese words on their webpages or in chat
rooms. For
example, you load up a webpage, and the first thing you see
in a H2 tag is
"KONNICHI WA, MINNA-SAN!! THAT'S JAPANESE FOR, "HELLO, IMA
MORON!". It has
actually turned into a -cliche- to say something like that
on your webpage.
Now, I do_NOT mean to insult anybody when I say that, but
come_ON..it is
-SO- overly used now that it is literally an insult to the
Japanese language
AND culture. I am not a scholar in Japanese, -and I'm not
claiming to be-,
but I am taking a Japanese/Kanji course this summer and I
do know the
Hiragana/Katakana chart table. Therefore, I KNOW when
somebody makes a
mistake on their webpage with their not-all-that-hot
attempt at Japanese.
And it pisses me off even more when people claim and -act-
like they know
the in's and out's about the Japanese language. Let me
tell you something:
It is the second hardest language in the world to
learn, right next
to American English. Do ANY of you really believe that you
can
master the language over the -internet-..? If you
can, I'de like to
know how.
Let me put it this way: the only true way to understand
the full meaning
behind Japanese words is to look at the Kanji, Hiragana,
sometimes even
KATAKANA script...-not- through the romanjii (English) ways
of spelling
Japanese words. If you claim to me that you can understand
the full meaning
behind Japanese words through the English, I will simply
roll my eyes. Ever
go to the Japanese to English dictionary?
http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/j-e/dict? Look up an
English word.
Let's say...Eternally. Oh wow. Do you -see- all those
Japanese words for
that one little English word? There you go. My point has
shown through.
Don't pretend that you know everything about Japanese. And
research your
translations before you make a full statement on your
webpage. And try
STUDYING kanji script. And... ::gets a sock stuffed in her
mouth as she is
dragged off to the asylum::
Comments on this article can be sent to:
Liz.
