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[Clefargle]

We did it!

 

[davidwhangchoi]

 

[Kindekuma]

ANIME HAS WON

 

[nephilimdj]

Merriam Webster also has a pretty awesome youtube channel

 

[The Albatross]

This was my first thought.

The second thought was "oh right this is how the English language works", as in breaking into the homes of other languages and pilfering whatever words it likes. It already broke into Japan for tsunami, sushi, and karaoke, now it's back for some more words to make off with.

I think you've just described the development of all language, and it doesn't apply to English anymore than it does any other language (with maybe the exception of French, which is much more strictly controlled)

 

[Sub_Level]

The year is 2016.

Anime is fucking real.

 

[Einhander]

This meme has overstayed its welcome. Pls go away.

In fact, all memes have. I hate all of them.

 

[harSon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATEc0euwiU

 

[Forerunner]

I'd graph that, if you know what I mean. 😏

wut

 

[jim-jam bongs]

 

[Einhander]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATEc0euwiU

Surprisingly good. I approve.

 

[Ivan 3414]

This was my first thought.

The second thought was "oh right this is how the English language works", as in breaking into the homes of other languages and pilfering whatever words it likes. It already broke into Japan for tsunami, sushi, and karaoke, now it's back for some more words to make off with.

Lmao you cannot be serious

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

In the same way that waifu is useful as a word to describe an unrealistic, slightly pathetic and fanciful crush or infatuation, senpai appears to me to fill a niche in describing a person of superior status whose attention one vies for. New words tend to fill niches that English is not currently able to, like schadenfreude did.

 

[Phu]

What's wrong with my age group?

You know exactly what's wrong.

 

[Calidor]

All according to Keikaku

 

[.JayZii]

Still waiting for kouhai to make its big break.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Anime has gone too far, nothing but trash!

 

[btown]

This is both amazing and awful.

 

[Funyarinpa]

This isn't happening

 

[Angry Grimace]

I don't understand the concept of Merriam-Webster trying to define a foreign word that already has a meaning.

 

[chrisPjelly]

CIVILIZATION HAS PEAKED

 

[TheRealTalker]

I'd graph that, if you know what I mean. 😏

lol literally

 

[The Silver]

Please no.

I already had to explain the type of people who use "kawaii in English speaking countries and why it's weird two weeks ago and yes it's officially in the textbooks here, don't make me do this one too.

this is your fault atlus

Goddammit.

Can we go back to crotchety old men being the ones to steal words from other languages? People my age are shit.

GAF-kun is so tsundere

 

[Amalthea]

GAF-kun is so tsundere

Sugoiiii!

 

[Vermillion]

My keikaku has worked.

Spoiler

My gaf-senpais have noticed me

Translator's note: Keikaku means "plan."

 

[leakey]

Uguu up next. That or naruhodo, maybe baka

 

[Horse Detective]

Can we all sing anime pussy together or???

 

[Sub_Level]

GAF-kun is so tsundere

Sasuga

 

[Log4Girlz]

Can we all sing anime pussy together or???

Neigh

 

[hateradio]

Arigato gosaimasu!

 

[M0nochromatic]

GAF-kun is so tsundere

It's even seeped into our normal western cartoons

won't someone think of the children

 

[Phu]

Translator's note: Keikaku means "plan."

I wakarimashita that reference.

 

[Nachos]

 

[formasymphonic]

The top definition (as chosen by users) is "someone who will never notice you."

This is probably a better used as a definition of osananajimi

 

[GaimeGuy]

This was my first thought.

The second thought was "oh right this is how the English language works", as in breaking into the homes of other languages and pilfering whatever words it likes. It already broke into Japan for tsunami, sushi, and karaoke, now it's back for some more words to make off with.

Have you SEEN what Japan does with the english language?

 

[bobbytkc]

Well, yes, but I'd prefer loan words to not be from anime

You think senpai is an anime word?

 

[SJRB]

As a great philosopher once said..

 

[Izuna]

Anime is the new Shakespeare.

 

[Ricitor]

As a great philosopher once said..

He knew this day would come, and none of us listened!

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

tageing becaues this threed is hilarouis

 

[GloriousBagel]

It's even seeped into our normal western cartoons

won't someone think of the children

Get this horrible garbage out of our superior white man cartoons damn it.

SAVE US TRUMP

 

[Laughing Banana]

Oh My God this is so funny ahahahahahahahahah.

 

[striferser]

Senpai, yoroshiku onegaishimasu

 

[johnsmith]

tageing becaues this threed is hilarouis

 

[LeleSocho]

ANIME HAS WON

By warping the original meaning? More likely the opposite, if the first thing people think when hearing "senpai" is "someone who will never notice you" or the equivalent of "sensei" the anime (and everyone) has lost... terribly so.

 

[SoundPulse]

you are my senpai
my only senpai
you give me dokis
and shades of grey
you'll never notice me
but i still love you
you're sugoi, kawaii desu ne

 

[MrChom]

This was my first thought.

The second thought was "oh right this is how the English language works", as in breaking into the homes of other languages and pilfering whatever words it likes. It already broke into Japan for tsunami, sushi, and karaoke, now it's back for some more words to make off with.

Yup, English, it's great. A German/French/Latin hybrid with a smattering of Celtic at the edges that borrows from multiple Indian languages, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and then a few words from anywhere Britain otherwise owned for a bit.

You can keep your languages where councils meet every year to stop loan words, I will take a proper language that moves organically in defiance of its own teachers and becomes something useful for the age it's in. If we need to borrow senpai then we should do so, just as we did with karaoke, pyjamas, veranda, taboo, mammoth, gung-ho, bazooka, and boycott.

English is like the Freemasons, though, you only stay in if we want you.

 

[Platy]

I don't understand the concept of Merriam-Webster trying to define a foreign word that already has a meaning.

Because that is what every dictionary does =P

There are THOUSANDS of foreing words on every dictionary

and why not

 

[Itaremustbedangeres]

I can't wait until western people start pronouncing words like japanese katakana. "Sumimasen clerk-san, what does that puresudeshon 4 cost, and is the doragonbooru XV bunduru still available?"

 

[Hasemo]

Still better than what happens when Japanese people go creative with English.

I can't wait until western people start pronouncing words like japanese katakana. "Sumimasen clerk-san, what does that puresudeshon 4 cost, and is the doragonbooru XV bunduru still available?"

The funny thing is, that there's a higher chance that a clerk in Japan will understand what you want if you say that than if you switched to English in the middle of the sentence to say "Playstation 4" properly.
Happened to me a few times, so I gave up and started using the broken katakana pronunciation.