Dogasu

My newest pet peeve

, 24th May 2012 at 09:40 AM (404 Views)

Dear people of the Internet,

Please stop referring to the Japanese language with the insulting label "moonspeak." Implying that Japanese people are extraterrestrials whose language is nothing but a garbled mess of inhuman syllables is, quite frankly, offensive.

"I can't read Japanese" is a much, much better way to get your point across.

Sincerely,

Dogasu

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Comments

Shift Gear - 24th May 2012 10:24 AM
I have never heard of this.
I like the moon, though, and aliens.
Evil Figment - 24th May 2012 10:28 AM
No

(And of course, Japanese IS significantly more alien to the vast majority of us english-speaking fans - alien as in foreign - than most European languages, because they grew so far apart).
Contrary - 24th May 2012 10:37 AM
Would you prefer it if I called it Atlantean?
Druddigon - 24th May 2012 11:10 AM
I blame meme lover :P In all seriousness it can be very irritating at times though.
Tendou Soujirou - 24th May 2012 11:15 AM
it should be sunspeak because it's the land of the rising sun. duh.

Druddigon likes this.
System Error - 24th May 2012 05:05 PM
it is fun to sake "i don't speak no moonspeak" though