We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening.

e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer
Regime vs Government

Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.

      • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        cartoon sounds derogatory like "its just a cartoon" but anime sounds like a legitimate genre, although I guess it depends on how old you are

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          All cartoons are called anime in Japan. Same goes for comics and manga. It's literally just the Japanese words for the media. People outside of Japan just use the words to refer to Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation and comics.

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            There's a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.

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            • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.

              very-smart Actually, Excalibur is double-sided, so it is a 剣/tsurugi.

            • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I'm guessing there's a French word for the French (and/or Belgian?) comics, right? I know there's a pretty big industry for them over there.

              • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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                1 year ago

                Indeed we produce and consume comics that are pretty different from the US and Japanese ones, both in France and Belgium and other countries. France and Belgium used to have some pretty well-known ones but that's a bit old news

                We say "Bandes dessinées"

        • relay@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Anime is a style of cartoon. The early 00's teen titans and the current "My Adventures with Superman" are in the anime style, but clearly western.