| I think ever since I was 12 or so I've been using English words or phrases in the middle of my sentences (I live in Brazil) because they "sound right" or "sound more natural". IDK why, but every once in a while the fact that I did this would get some fellow thirdies really mad for reasons I'm not so sure. I've been doing this more and more over time, but something I noticed is that Japanese songs do that a lot? And that got me thinking... why do they do that? Why are there English words and phrases in Japanese songs? |
| Japan always has had a fixation with English embedded into its language, so possibly. |
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| Because it sounds cool, exotic and emphatic.You might feel like the collocation is better in this situation too. Say they roughly mean the same thing but the semantic gap is better expressed by one or a. It is not only english, they like german, pick frieren or snk, french pick Blood C or Tutu, Italian pick Aria, Latin, Russian pick GitS SaC. And even Chinese, Wo ai Ni OP in gintama for example. K-pop is full of it too. English is also the bridge language now, and it bleeds in. This article might be fun to you too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo |
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| That sounds like code-switching to me, my guy. It happens with bilingual and multilingual speakers who actively speaks the languages. You can notice that among Indians and Filipinos for one. Some of them, at least. |
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| I always hate it when people do that; it's like they can't even speak their own native language properly. |
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| I'm not sure, random German words on the other hand definitely are Also Kpop songs have them to an even higher degree than Japanese songs, and they're like the most mainstream thing ever. |
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| Loanwords are common in most languages, especially English ones, because it's the most dominant language globally. |
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| Maybe a little chuuni. Mostly it's a thing that happens with the cultural colonization of the english speaking cultures. The reason why I try to use finnish more and better in everyday life as I don't want my language to die |
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| Languages borrow words from other languages all the time. Almost half of the words in the English language were taken from Norman French after William I conquered Britain in the 11th century. |
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows. |
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