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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[The Croods]

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[Elementary]

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[Final Fantasy XIII]

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[SCP Foundation]

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[Philip Seymour Hoffman]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Richard Armitage]

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[Reign]

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[The Hobbit]

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[Hunger Games]

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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]

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Actually, Japanese is rife with loanwords from all different languages, not just English. It's a huge part of their language in general - for instance, the Japanese word for bread is "pan," which comes from the Portuguese "pão." Likewise, their word for hideout, "ajito," is from the Russian "agitpunkt." The Japanese language borrows from all over the place; English is just a small subset.

Not only that, but they've taken loanwords and given them their own meanings. In English, we think of " high tension" in the sense of a tense situation or a strong pulling force, but in Japanese it's used to refer to a state of intense excitement and has positive connotations rather than negative ones. For a country that's so traditional in a lot of ways, it really likes to borrow words!

I know all of that; I lived there for a year and studied the language for several. But there's still a national (read: government enabled) push to replace those words with ones that are entirely Japanese-derived. It's silly to the point of ridiculousness that there are departments that exist to try to essentially erase the need for katakana.

As far as I know this isn't the case for India, but I could be off base.

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