Shodokan

For the love of god please do not say random Japanese words in public. I just watched something where this Japanese girl kept saying these random English words. It was so horrible I dare not repeat it even in writing. It took something like that to realize how horrible it is when otaku do that in everyday life. So please stop if you do so and tell everyone you know who does this to stop.

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Arrianna

That's how we adopt new words in American English though. Give it 10 years and teenage girls won't even know that "Kawaii" isn't actually English.

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koga23

thats why the US is great, use another word from a another language in give it some time and we say its ower word lol

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blue_rebel

I think I might just drop dead if I go to a toy store and hear some girl going, "Look at that! It's sooooooooo kawaii!!!" +__+

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equinn

ok i would use the odd one once in a while with my frends like " thats soo kawaii !!! lol) ect like that but it would only be abit of fun to use some japanese words as long as there said right i think but if so ok..

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blue_rebel

I don't know, it would just come across as very annoying to me... +_+ For me, it's either all or nothing. You either speak wholly in Japanese, or wholly in some other language. Having bits and pieces here and there is just weird... unless, of course, it's part of the culture of the country you're from - like in Malaysia, where you can actually use 3 languages or more in one sentence, and people will actually understand you.

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equinn

well we dont lol
but its just between me and some friends so its cool
pluse we try to find out as many japanese words a poss lol make a game out of it who knows most japanese words and what they are in eng lol

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Arrianna

Maybe, but that's how it works in the US. Here we use words like:
(French) deja Vu, beautiful, lingerie, prairie, batteau, portage, rapids, picayune, levee, chute, butte, crevasse,
(Spanish) lariat, lasso, ranch, loco (weed), mustang, sombrero, canyon, desperado, poncho, chapparal, corral, broncho, plaza, peon, cayuse, burro, mesa, tornado, presidio, sierra, adobe, bonanza, eldorado, placer, vigilante, cinch,
(Mexican) coyote, tamale, frijole, tomato, vamose, sabe, gazebo,
(German) sauerkraut, noodle, pretzel, pumpernickel, pinocle, wiener, frankfurter, schnitzel, liverwurst, delicatessen, hamburger, kindergarten, loafer, bum, dumb, bower, ouch, shyster,
(Gaelic/Irish) smithereens, poteen, kiddo, skiddoo, ballyhoo, shebang,
(Chinese) yen, flop, kow-tow, chop-suey, ginseng, joss,
...and no one thinks twice about where they are from.

There is more but really that should be enough to get the idea. It's only a matter of time until the more popular Japanese words join them.

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mahiru

Haha, my friends and I have done that ^^; But they do that in many languages, too. Because most of them are Asian, and most of them take another Asian langauge in addition to the one they know. So I guess I picked it up. Sometimes I just naturally say "kawaii ne!" or "hen ke'ai!" and no one's ever given me a weird look for it... well, at least not Japanese xD Chinese is another story >_>

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Abu Dhabi

^o^ hee hee! it's like that in Philippines too! Taglog, Spanish and English all in one!

i can see that everyone here has a point... however... there's languages that blend into the culture and then there's wapanese in the corner of Border's who won't shut up... so, that's the difference i see. plus, i'm TRYING to learn Japanese in school myself, and i don't want to try to speak the language in public until i atleast understand the culture behind it...

=_= and that's very hard for someone as loud as me!

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