"Japanimation"

Schitzo · 2012-01-17 13:44:13

I dunno. I just love using this word. It sounds oddly sophisticated, and i love pissing off pricks that take offense to this word somehow.

Forzare · 2012-01-17 13:47:29

People take offense to it?

Schitzo · 2012-01-17 13:49:23

That, or they go "Its called Anime! A-NI-ME!!! Baka Gaijin!"

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-01-17 13:49:25

I think it sounds kinda dumb, but I can't understand taking offense to it or getting pissed off about it or anything.

Gelzo · 2012-01-17 13:53:22

Speaking of terms that are outdated for racially euphemistic reasons, it's amusing when I come across some variation of the term "Negro English" in writings from the seventies.

Malkavian · 2012-01-17 14:02:35

Japanimation... is that like those Chinese porn cartoons or something?

Gelzo · 2012-01-17 14:09:47

It's the term that was used for anime that predates the word "anime" as it is used in the West. That's assuming you weren't being cute with that post.

Malkavian · 2012-01-17 15:08:37

>Gelzo assumes I'm wasn't a weeaboo as a kid.

That's adorable.

captainbrass · 2012-01-17 15:16:54

The correct term for "Negro English" is now "African-American Vernacular English", by the way.

InsanityAddict · 2012-01-17 15:39:31

^I've never heard of either, always used either Jive or Ebonics.

Gelzo · 2012-01-17 17:34:34

^^It's common to drop the "Vernacular" for brevity. But I guess it might not always be advisable to do so in case a layperson gets the wrong idea about what the term implies.

Sadie · 2012-01-17 18:08:10

"Japanimation"

...People still use this word?

DonZabu · 2012-01-17 18:28:22

You seem eager to offend your fellow man, Schitzo.

Anyway, I once knew a girl who thought it was "Japanime". That makes even less sense.

Gelzo · 2012-01-17 18:38:11

As opposed to what? Amerim... Well, actually people do say "Amerime" so Japanime could serve as a useful distinction from the perspective of someone defining anime as the super-category of both, but... Both of those terms strike me as obnoxious and unnecessary.

DYRE · 2012-01-17 18:39:21

Amerime sounds like an even stupider and more pointless word than Japanimation.

LouieW · 2012-01-17 20:04:31

I have heard other people say that Japanimation actually is a term used in Japan. ANN actually seems to support that idea, believe it or not: "[p]aradoxically enough, 'Japanimation' is now commonly used in Japan to differentiate between Japanese animation and other animation, all of which is called 'Animé.'

So I guess if you want to talk about animation like the Japanese do you should use the word "Japanimation" instead of "anime" (which I would guess sounds more French than Japanese anyway).

Firebert · 2012-01-17 20:43:50

^ That's what I heard as well. Won't stop the weeaboos, though.

glennmagusharvey · 2012-01-17 20:55:59

^^ That's because it is an abbreviated French loanword.

Nyktos · 2012-01-17 21:05:06

No, it's an abbreviated English loanword.

glennmagusharvey · 2012-01-17 21:05:36

No, I'm pretty sure they got it from the French.

Nyktos · 2012-01-17 21:06:22

It's short for "animeeshon", which is borrowed from English "animation".

I realize that "animé" is a French word, but that doesn't mean there's a direct connection.

vacasama · 2012-01-17 21:06:50

Where did you get THAT from? The French term for animation is "Dessin Animé". Anime actually comes from "animation" which in Romji is pronounced "animeshon".

glennmagusharvey · 2012-01-17 21:11:13

Okay, fine, we could both be right.

Japanese write the English term "animation" in katakana as アニメーション (animēshon, pronounced [animeːɕoɴ]), and the term アニメ (anime, pronounced [anime] ( listen) in Japanese) emerged in the 1970s as an abbreviation.^[16] Others claim that the word derives from the French phrase dessin animé.^[3] Japanese-speakers use both the original and abbreviated forms interchangeably, but the shorter form occurs more commonly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Terminology

vacasama · 2012-01-17 21:14:37

The weird thing about is that the Japanese language does have the needed kanji to make a native word for "animation".

Nyktos · 2012-01-17 21:20:09

@glennmagusharvey: Wikipedia says that, yes, but Wiktionary and Merriam-Webster both mention only the English origin.

This guy claims that most Japanese dictionaries say it's from English.

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