• glimse@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Those are idioms. The anime kids were weirdly incorporating Japanese words into their communication with English speakers and doing kamehamehas in the hallway.

    Here’s something more analogous: A friend spent the summer before senior year in France and when she came back, you could not get through a conversation without her dropping a French word or relating something to “how they do things in France”. And yes, we made fun of her until she stopped.

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        30 minutes ago

        Yes but that’s done naturally, not shoehorning it into conversation with people who have no idea what you’re talking about