Yeah, it's like stealth training.
It's one thing if your own language isn't adequate for the concept, thing or action in question; otherwise, it becomes kind of stealth training. We've seen it with Russian and Japanese in the late 20th century (lots of Japanese words started appearing around the time it looked like they were going to buy up all of the USA, before the Yen crashed or something.)
And riddle me this: What's up with supposedly non-racist youngsters distinguishing between who does what cartoons and comic books? Of course, when I was young, the only Japanese cartoons out was Kimba and Astroboy (from the same fellow). I mean, if you're talking about distinguishing between distinct "art styles" (the Japanese all seem to draw the same way - big haired humans, shitty, blobby non-humans unless they're monsters, etc, and that's kind of a creepy issue in and of itself) but that's not how they use "anime" and "manga"; they tend to use it in a pretentious way, to indicate that the Japanese stuff is somehow automatically "superior" to anyone else's stuff. (Of course I don't agree. They're confusing "better" with "being more used to using that medium for adults-only content". It's not that North American animation was always "for kids". It was always "for everyone", with very little, if any, adults-only stuff during the Hayes Code era. And yes, I think Disney's pre-Xerox feature animations deserve to be elevated to the category of "high art" for accomplishing all of what they did completely by hand.)
Yeah, it's like stealth training.
It's one thing if your own language isn't adequate for the concept, thing or action in question; otherwise, it becomes kind of stealth training. We've seen it with Russian and Japanese in the late 20th century (lots of Japanese words started appearing around the time it looked like they were going to buy up all of the USA, before the Yen crashed or something.)
And riddle me this: What's up with supposedly non-racist youngsters distinguishing between who does what cartoons and comic books? Of course, when I was young, the only Japanese cartoons out was Kimba and Astroboy (from the same fellow). I mean, if you're talking about distinguishing between distinct "art styles" (the Japanese all seem to draw the same way - big haired humans, shitty, blobby non-humans unless they're monsters, etc, and that's kind of a creepy issue in and of itself) but that's not how they use "anime" and "manga"; they tend to use it in a pretentious way, to indicate that the Japanese stuff is somehow automatically "superior" to anyone else's stuff. (Of course I don't agree. They're confusing "better" with "being more used to using that medium for adults-only content". It's not that North American animation was always "for kids". It was always "for everyone", with very little, if any, adults-only stuff during the Hayes Code era. And yes, I think Disney's pre-Xerox animations deserve to be elevated to the category of "high art" for accomplishing all of what it did completely by hand.)
Yeah, it's like stealth training.
It's one thing if your own language isn't adequate for the concept, thing or action in question; otherwise, it becomes kind of stealth training. We've seen it with Russian and Japanese in the late 20th century (lots of Japanese words started appearing around the time it looked like they were going to buy up all of the USA, before the Yen crashed or something.)
And riddle me this: What's up with supposedly non-racist youngsters distinguishing between who does what cartoons and comic books? Of course, when I was young, the only Japanese cartoons out was Kimba and Astroboy (from the same fellow). I mean, if you're talking about distinguishing between distinct "art styles" (the Japanese all seem to draw the same way - big haired humans, shitty, blobby non-humans unless they're monsters, etc, and that's kind of a creepy issue in and of itself) but that's not how they use "anime" and "manga"; they tend to use it in a pretentious way, to indicate that the Japanese stuff is somehow automatically "superior" to anyone else's stuff. (Of course I don't agree. They're confusing "better" with "being more used to using that medium for adults-only content". It's not that North American animation was always "for kids". It was always "for everyone", with very little, if any, adults-only stuff during the Hayes Code era).