[ SECRET POST #2727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Do you honestly see "kawaii" becoming popularly disseminated as a synonym for cute? No, people only use it because it's Japanese and it makes them feel cool to use it.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not addressing my question: is kaput cultural appropriation by your definition?

[(Anonymous)]

I would personally not use the word. I don't come from a background where are a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish people. (I grew up in a suburb in the Midwest where the largest minorities were Latino and Hmong people.) It would be unnatural and, yes, appropriative for it to be a part of my lexicon. When it enters into a regional vocabulary by way of immigrants who disseminate parts of their ethnic background into the culture they immigrate to, which is how most Yiddish vocabulary entered the American English lexicon (very different from middle-class white kids deciding to use the words because they have a hard-on for a culture they have no stake in), that's more acceptable.

[(Anonymous)]

Welp, better stop speaking then because you seem to have no fucking idea on how many English words come from other cultures.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god you're a fucking idiot and have no idea about how language works.

[(Anonymous)]

...The Linguist in me weeps.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you honestly see "kawaii" becoming popularly disseminated as a synonym for cute?

This is actually happening already. I have no opinion of it, just stating that yeah, it is becoming an actual thing. There've been articles about how it's becoming a thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Kawaii used as a synonym for cute is kind of widespread on the internet, and it mostly refers to a certain type of cute aesthetic (heavily inspired by the Japanese aesthetic) that's loaded with soft colors, cutesy emojis and childish things marketed at young adults. You don't call a puppy kawaii (unless you're 12 and very into anime, I guess), but you'd call something like Lolita fashion kawaii (albeit a bit ironically) because that's the aesthetic the word applies to in the west.

Language, it turns out, is very versatile.