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Japanese man sues broadcaster NHK for using too many foreign words

>A PENSIONER is suing Japan's national broadcaster for emotional distress, claiming the overuse of foreign loanwords has rendered many of its programmes unintelligible, his lawyer said today.

>Hoji Takahashi, 71, is demanding 1.41 million yen ($15,000) in damages for the broadcaster's reliance on words borrowed from English, instead of their traditional Japanese counterparts.

>"The basis of his concern is that Japan is being too Americanised," lawyer Mutsuo Miyata said. "There is a sense of crisis that this country is becoming just a province of America."

>Japanese has a rich native vocabulary, but has a tradition of borrowing words from other languages, often quite inventively and sometimes changing their meaning in the process.

>Most Japanese speakers do not think twice about using words including "trouble", "risk", "drive" or "parking", among many others.

"Glorious Nihongo" they said

>> No.11102205

What has been damaged?

>> No.11102209

>>11102205
His mental health. Can't you read?

>> No.11102212

>>11102209
You can't damage that.

>> No.11102214

>>11102212
Wanna bet?

*whips out hammer*

>> No.11102219
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>>11102214
*whips out HOMU*

>> No.11102238

English is currently ruining many languages in Europe as well. It's very sad indeed.

>> No.11102328

>>11102238
European languages already ruined English.

>> No.11102331

>English
>ruining
>HOMU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWIpYnJyf-0

>> No.11102349

At least 廣州話 won't be infiltrating other languages since it's not that easy
#lmao

>> No.11102351

>>11102331
I really, really cringe hearing English VAs read anime lines.

But for some reason it's specifically the way English VAs voice anime. I can listen to Frank Welker or Billy West, and http://youtu.be/n1aWoNvv7aU is awesome.

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>>11102331
God I really hate these neo-anime voice actors. People used to talk with their voices before instead of try so hard to sound sing songy whispery airy and light.

>> No.11102378

>>11102355
Blame Wendee Lee, she started it.

>> No.11102394

>>11102351
It's just American/Canadian women. The men are fine.

>> No.11102412
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damn homu you smooth

>> No.11102423

IS it the fate of all /jp/ threads to segue into Madoka?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKxNI7_5dc

>> No.11102457

>>11102423
Just the bad ones.

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>this country is becoming just a province of America
Maybe some day....

Also, I hear that this is happening with a lot of other languages too. Whenever I see people speak in a foreign language on the internet, I always see them use a lot of English words, especially in regards to memes and slang.

>> No.11102464

>>11102423
No, it's the same autistic faggot(s) spamming Homura.

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>>11102464
You're the autistic faggot.

>> No.11102482

And English language itself borrows a shit ton from other languages too. Oh, those old people and their hate of change.

>> No.11102486

Shit that old man only wants that $ for seducing underaged boys. Send him to jail so he may spend the rest of his days in shame.

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homer

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>>11102489

>> No.11102495

>>11102238
>>11102328
European languages are already awful.

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When I was in Bosnia, they didn't allow a Mcdonalds to open up in one of their cities. Something about how it was going to destroy their cultural food. Their equivalent of a hamburger was little sausages and unions between fried bread.

>> No.11102518

>>11102502
That sounds hella good. I'd eat that over MgRonald's any day.

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>>11102502
>and unions

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ummm

>> No.11102529

TRUBURU

RISKU

DRIVU

PARKERU

>> No.11102533

I use native words ironalically when speaking in my mother tongue.

>> No.11102544

>>11102349
Pok gai, dude

>> No.11102715

>>11102351
I think it's a budget issue. There's plenty of good English VA's for games etc. but never for animus.

>> No.11102723

>being a retard and being unable to understand compulsory tier English means a man has a case to sue a broadcasting station
I should sue PBS for having Spanish speaking characters on Sesame Street.

>> No.11102737

>>11102723
I bet some redneck already has.

>> No.11102744

I use Japanese words in my everyday speech, and nobody complains. That ojiisan is just being a baka.

>> No.11102757

Wasn't english just basically the result of mixing everything in between rome and berlin with a good helping of greek on the side?

It's no surprise that the nigger of modern speech outbreeds native counterparts.

>> No.11102762

>>11102715
>There's plenty of good English VA's for games
Dubbed games are generally even worse, but you probably mean originally english ones.

>> No.11102765

>>11102757
Nope. English is a descendant of German languages. Anything Latin in it is a corruption of the language.

>> No.11102768

>>11102765
A general failure to germanise far flung ex roman colonies did all this?

Damn lazy bastards.

>> No.11102781

>>11102757
That's the case with all the languages on Earth. No one of them is completely pure from foreign words, unless it's some backward ass african language isolated from the rest of the world.

>> No.11102783

>>11102768

Probably the boner people had for Latin in the middle ages.

>> No.11102785

>>11102460
Usa dominates the world, so obviously their language is the one nominated as the cool thing to talk.The same happened with greek and latin.

Hell, gauls ended up forsaking their language.

>> No.11102788

how many people lurk this board for hours through all the touhou and VN threads just so they can contribute their worthless boring /pol/int/ shit nobody cares abot?

>> No.11102791

>>11102788
About 80% of the board's userbase.

>> No.11102801

>>11102788

JIDF spotted

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>>11102788

>> No.11102805

>>11102801
The holocaust is a fraud. It's all a ploy to feed the jews money by guilt tripping people that had nothing to do with it.

>> No.11102807

They don't like our words?
Maybe they will like our bombs.

>> No.11102808

>>11102804

That looks like Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Can black people be jews, anyway?

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i dunno much about polotics but i know america RULES and i like ice cream and big macs

>> No.11102834

>>11102808
Yes,but they get class restrictions according to the new codex.

>> No.11102872

The world is property of America.

>> No.11102876

half of the japanese alphabet is made of characters they "loaned" from chinese, why do they care if its happening with words too?

>> No.11102878

>>11102876
It is because they originate from China. Being America's lapdog is fate worse than death.

>> No.11102887

>>11102878
Bet they're really rethinking the whole bear the unbearable thing right about now.

>> No.11102992

>>11102808
>Can black people be jews, anyway?
Yes. Look up Beta Israel, Ethiopian Jews.
Ethiopia is also home to an old Christian sect that was established before the first German knew how to pray.

>> No.11103177

>>11102529
lost it completely.

>> No.11103214 [DELETED] 

>>11102992
>Yes. Look up Beta Israel, Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopia is also home to an old Christian sect that was established before the first German knew how to pray.
okay

>> No.11103232

So OP, what you're basically saying, is because some faggot in a different country doesn't like the fact that our language is used in his country, that it's ok to sue the government for letting cultural change take place, which is bound to happen anyway?
Well fuck then, might as well sue every television company ever.

>> No.11103235

ここ日本だ!英語なんて必要ない!我々は日本語だけで生きて行く!

>> No.11103237

Japan, the 53rd state.

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>tfw based american monoglot

>> No.11103342

/jp/ - Japan/General.

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