Originally posted by: Mae
As for our conversation here. I personally don't care if people occasionally use borrowed Japanese words or phrases. Yeah, this can be overdone, like l33t and emoticons can be overdone and annoying, but most of us know common words like sumimasen or banzai, so whatever.


That reminds me
The same guy who I mentioned earlier also called me Wapanese loser for using "sou ka" when I talked to him.
I'm never posting on ANN again...

Wapanese = white-Japanese; or, a non-native of japan using Japanese terms

So in response to Hikyuu's prompt:
How acceptable is it for us, as anime fans, to integrate Japanese terms into our speech. I only use "sou ka" when on AIM/MSN/Yahoo and I only do it to get that "old-Japanese-guy-I-see" effect. That's really the only thing I use, and I never do it in real life. So, does anyone else actually use what they know of Japanese? Other thoughts concerning this?

(I'm referring of course to those who haven't actually learned the language and, like me, only pick up what they hear in anime/jpop/games/etc - which is surprisingly a lot)