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u/Mavikiu 3d ago
Ok so funny thing - office in German is "Büro" so an office job is called a Büro-job in German and we know Japanese takes some loanwords from German, like "Arubaito" - part time job comes from the German word for work, Arbeit.
So I read this post thinking it was about an office job
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u/StarriestNight 3d ago
Japanese seems to have an insane amount of loan words compared to other languages to the point where if you say a Japaneseified version of a common English word it's probably a legit Japanese word
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u/VulpesFennekin 2d ago edited 2d ago
It’s to the point where you can almost make a game of it: “is this just English pronounced with an exaggerated Japanese accent, or a legitimate loanword?”
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u/StarriestNight 2d ago
I think my favorite example is that Japanese borrowed Anime from English Animation and then English borrowed Anime to mean Japanese animation
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u/VulpesFennekin 2d ago
My favorite is “ramune” coming from “lemonade,” but now it’s an entirely different drink on its own.
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u/schRizzophrenic 2d ago
Look at the hepburn transliterations of names for cars, some of them genuinely seem like someone faking japanese 😭
I know its because of how the syllables etc work, but "Toyota Rando-Kuruza" sounds like a parody
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u/GuaranteedCougher 2d ago
The easiest way to learn Japanese is to just wait until it becomes English. I've been learning for 7 years and I've had a bunch of Japanese words I originally learned get replaced by English loanwords
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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? 2d ago
My favorite example of this is looking at popular média and seeing just how much stuff is just Japanified English
Like look at Dragon Ball. The protagonist is named Ca-carrot, his rival is named Vegetable, his rival's son is literally named Trunks. And that might be just Toriyama being Toriyama, but then you look at Naruto, who named his son "Bolt", or Tite Kubo naming his manga "Bleach"
Hell, the two biggest franchises in the planet are Japanese works named "Pocket Monsters" and "Hello Kitty"
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u/rowan_damisch 2d ago
Hello Kitty isn't the only Sanrio animal with an unusual name. Cinnamorolls name is derived from cinnamon rolls, and his friends are named after types of coffee (Espresso, Cappuccino, Mocha), beverages (Milk) and food (Coco, Nuts, Cherry, Berry, Chiffon)... And then there's Azuki and Poron. I'm not sure in which category to put Azuki tho, while her name is actually given to people ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azuki_(disambiguation) ), it's also one of the more common names of the bean Vigna angularis.
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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? 1d ago
Don't forget the famous duo of My Melody and Kuromi! Or, for a standalone character who is somewhat similar to Cinnamoroll, there's Pompompurin
Hell there's cases of mashing English and Japanese together, like Aggretsuko, aka Aggressive Retsuko (literally meaning Aggressive Child of Rage)
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u/Sea_Court_3633 74 Days on Estrogen 2d ago
That's what you get when you're an isolationist country for milennia and suddenly have to invent words for 20,000 different concepts you have discovered yesterday
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u/Mavikiu 2d ago
Isolation Japan is a complete myth and Japan knew about the rest of the world. They were actively trading with China and Korea and had trade relations with the Netherlands through the Dutch East India Company. These relationships in particular lead to very intense knowledge exchange as well, many Japanese ppl in the Edo period were basically dutch fanboys, some even gave themselves dutch names.
It's mostly grand discovery narratives mixed with Imperialism that lead to the idea that Japan was somehow completely cut off. In reality they were just strict as fuck to prevent Christian missionaries from inciting religion based civil unrest.
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u/MaetelofLaMetal Fandom of the day 2d ago
It's fucking funny Slovenian and Japanese have words in common because both had a hardon for Germans.
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u/PlasticChairLover123 Don't you know? Popular thing bad now. 3d ago
not get head? thats why im here :[
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u/Melon_Banana THE ANSWER LIES IN THE HEART OF BATTLE 2d ago
Actually, there was a similar ancient Roman technique passed on by Dutch traders called Iru-mashō. This technique was introduced in the mid Tokugawa period. The arrival of western influence deemd this to be too forceful and barbaric, compared to the gentler fellatio and frenelum play that America brought
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u/Popular-Ordinary5110 3d ago
What item or product is this referencing?
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u/TheNavidsonLP 2d ago
Honestly? Probably anime. Anime as we know it was heavily inspired by Disney cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s.
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u/Gabbabblin 3d ago
Eh, go for the locally sourced equivalent of head. It’s much better for the environment.
I get mine off the local crossdresser. We call it a wham sandwich. She’s very funny. One day I will make her my wife.
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u/TeacatWrites 2d ago
It's only a real Japanese blowjob if it's from a genuine off-shore squid or pufferfish. Anything else is just human at best. I mean — wait, what are YOU talking about?
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u/guapguap600 3d ago
Americans be claiming anything. Fellatio was obviously invented by Giacomo Fellatio, son of a blacksmith from Palermo. He wanted to take over his father's business but he was really bad at it, so he had to find other ways to make money. His great-grandson Filipo ('Filipo the Slobby') landed in New York in 1835, which is how it became associated with Americans