Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It's fascinating just how much of modern Japanese seems to be just English but in katakana.
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July
@july
the slight issue with this is that the “western” words in Japanese sometimes aren’t direct translations of the English words themselves. That’s when they get confusing E.g. 「テンションが高い」- means your “tension is high”, (ten shon ga takai) which in fact means you are excited
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Ayush
@ayushm.eth
first time I learned about this (timestamped): https://youtu.be/BAg208UG7Ow?t=230 quite fascinating!
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mely.eth
@mely.eth
practicing katakana for the 1000th time while skilfully ignoring the batch of kanji glaring at me 🥲
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Cy Winther-Tamaki
@tamaki
It can be confusing because there’s a tendency to assume the katakana words are US English, when all foreign words are written in katakana. For example you would turn on your “ウインカー” (“winker”) when turning your car, but this word comes from the UK, the American term is “turning signal”
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Regina
@rkw
Similar in Korean (Hangul) too. I lived South Korea for a long time.
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Dwayne 'The Jock' Ronson
@dwayne
I noticed this first when I watched Japanese Pro Wrestling. Which they would call "Puro Resu". And the announcers would call out the moves the same way too. For eg, if there was an elbow strike they would yell out "Eru boooo". So interesting.
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dev
@photoshop.eth
Need to get back to learning my kanjis 😮💨
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