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2 Apr 2002 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneok, so i used to have a japanese exchange student. this meant that i learned how to say all kinds of slang things like where and bad boy and shut up. and, apparently, boyfriend, even though i thought it was a real word. anyone who speaks japanese: kareshi?
so in this chapter one of the example sentences was "i got a new boyfriend." instead of the japanese word, they used the english. ok. fair enough. loanwords. but then in my evaluation i paused, because it's hard to do loanwords because you're thinking in english if you think "boyfriend" and you want to say "boyfriend" instead of "booihurendo." so i said watashiwa kareshi ga dekimashita. and my professor made a... face. and said, "well, i guess that's ok too," and i said,
"what?"
"it's not a very... neutral word."
neutral word. wtf? it doesn't mean boyfriend? what does it mean--like, partner in hot monkey sex? anyone?
so in this chapter one of the example sentences was "i got a new boyfriend." instead of the japanese word, they used the english. ok. fair enough. loanwords. but then in my evaluation i paused, because it's hard to do loanwords because you're thinking in english if you think "boyfriend" and you want to say "boyfriend" instead of "booihurendo." so i said watashiwa kareshi ga dekimashita. and my professor made a... face. and said, "well, i guess that's ok too," and i said,
"what?"
"it's not a very... neutral word."
neutral word. wtf? it doesn't mean boyfriend? what does it mean--like, partner in hot monkey sex? anyone?
