Ahri Boy 🏳️⚧️@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agoJapan’s English skills crash to record low, behind Laos and Vietnamscmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down10
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minus-squareSpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 months agoAnd silly English loan words. I was watching an anime about camping awhile back, and about lost it when I realized that the word for “Ground Tarp” wasn’t Japanese at all, but an English loan word, “Guraundo tarepu”.
minus-squareAstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·6 months agoSame with “black hole”. So easy to translate, but nah, it’s “burakku hooru”
And silly English loan words.
I was watching an anime about camping awhile back, and about lost it when I realized that the word for “Ground Tarp” wasn’t Japanese at all, but an English loan word, “Guraundo tarepu”.
Same with “black hole”. So easy to translate, but nah, it’s “burakku hooru”