maxiewawa wrote:It's funny how the Japanese 'borrow' words from other languages, screw around with the pronunciation and no one complains; (today's lesson has 'kurisumasu') but English borrows a word from German and we all notice it.
Well, for us french-speaking peoples loving Japanese language, it's always sad to see that it borrows so much from the english, forgetting that they usually already have a native word for it.
It's one of the many bad sides of globalisation, and american cultural invasion of the world.
A lot of local languages are dying right now. And even the strong languages (like japanese or french) are under invasion by english. Nothing to be happy about...
