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0 pointsdisruptalot9y ago0 comments

You can imagine being British and learning the American language. Of course people feel cheated if their culture is not credited where it should be.

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fenomas9y ago

When someone in Japan, talking about the Japanese language, refers to "Japanese characters", they clearly mean "characters used when writing Japanese". They are not suggesting anything about where the characters originated.

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0 pointsdisruptalot9y ago0 comments

You can imagine being British and learning the American language. Of course people feel cheated if their culture is not credited where it should be.

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fenomas9y ago

When someone in Japan, talking about the Japanese language, refers to "Japanese characters", they clearly mean "characters used when writing Japanese". They are not suggesting anything about where the characters originated.

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