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May. 31st, 2007 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenTo: Dan Brown
I don't know if I ever had any respect for you to begin with, but if I did, you just lost it.
This is kind of a nice complement to my previous post, I think. One is Japanese people screwing up English, and the other is English people screwing up Japanese. :P
ETA: Y'know, one of the reasons many of my stories drag is because I fear having to research what I'm talking about. The Sailor Moon/Xanth crossover stalled when I couldn't find the names of airports in Florida. I'm dreading the day when, if ever, I have to start talking about the Beijing and London seishi in my Fushigi Yuugi fic. [This is also why I prefer fantasy worlds, where I can just make it all up.]
But Dan Brown has shown me the light. Apparently I can still make it all up! And still get published!
I think they need a Rule 11 for writers.
[Rule 11 says if a lawyer signs something it certifies that he reasonably researched the arguments and they have a reasonable basis.]
I don't know if I ever had any respect for you to begin with, but if I did, you just lost it.
This is kind of a nice complement to my previous post, I think. One is Japanese people screwing up English, and the other is English people screwing up Japanese. :P
ETA: Y'know, one of the reasons many of my stories drag is because I fear having to research what I'm talking about. The Sailor Moon/Xanth crossover stalled when I couldn't find the names of airports in Florida. I'm dreading the day when, if ever, I have to start talking about the Beijing and London seishi in my Fushigi Yuugi fic. [This is also why I prefer fantasy worlds, where I can just make it all up.]
But Dan Brown has shown me the light. Apparently I can still make it all up! And still get published!
I think they need a Rule 11 for writers.
[Rule 11 says if a lawyer signs something it certifies that he reasonably researched the arguments and they have a reasonable basis.]
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Date: 2007-06-03 03:13 am (UTC)And when has a writing system been a completely separate language of its own? *grr* >.<
As for misuse of English in Asian culture - I was pretty impressed, actually, that all the English signage in "Read Or Die the TV" (during the Hong Kong sequences) was spelled correctly and had mostly good grammar. Someone on the production staff clearly had done their research.
I think the prevalent mis-use of Chinese and Japanese in American culture and vice-versa happens because these languages were being employed for shallow reasons in the first place. Adding random characters or phrases for "exoticism" only shows that you don't understand them well enough in the first place. If you could read them properly, then they would lose their "exotic," "foreign" flavor and just be - well, normal written language.