It’s just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners
Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude
It’s just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners
Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude
This phrasing kinda has similar vibes to someone insistently calling trans people “the transgenders.” It’s such a weird, petty way to signal bigotry and ignorance.
I thought so too, but then I sort of realised that it’s pretty normal “a german, a frenchman and a swede walks into a bar” doesn’t sound weird. Nor does “I met an american yesterday, they were very loud”.
“A japanese” still looks weird and signals weirdo energy, but it shouldn’t. I wonder why?
That’s a fair point!
I think it could be the -ese at the end. “A chinese” has the same weird vibe whereas “a korean” sounds better, so I don’t think it’s (necessarily) the history of bigotry against East Asians that makes it sound off.
To me, the -ese ending kinda implies that the speaker is referencing a group. Words ending in -ese seem to lean more plural by default and using them to refer to singular individuals feels off, at least in my opinion. English is a very strange language though and I could very easily be wrong.
Yeah I think it’s the -ese too. I thought it was wrong to use for a person in singular, but apparently not for all nationalities. English is all vibes.
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You also can’t pluralize -ese words without adding “people”, while you can make the other ones plural with just an “s”. Very inconvenient. English is weird.
This is also exactly the way someone who speaks japanese natively would talk in english as it’s a direct translation.
It’s less that it’s a direct translation and more that a natively Japanese person isn’t likely to be aware of the vaguely racist vibes “a Japanese” has to a native English speaker
There is no word that means just “Japanese” in Japanese. 日本人 specifically means Japanese person and is just the words Japan and person smashed together