Wasei-eigo (和製英語, meaning "Japanese-made English", from "wasei" (Japanese made) and "eigo" (English), in other words, "English words coined in Japan")...
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or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms. These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms). Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese...
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characters in Japanese. For a list of terms, see the List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms. Japanese has a long history of borrowing from foreign languages...
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Janglish are more specific to Japanese Engrish. The related Japanese term wasei-eigo (和製英語: 'Japanese-made English') refers to pseudo-anglicisms that have...
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Yuri (Japanese: 百合, lit. "lily"), also known by the wasei-eigo construction girls' love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a genre of Japanese media focusing on...
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(レディースコミック) The first term used to describe this category of manga. It is a wasei-eigo construction where "ladies" is understood as a synonym for "women", thus...
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– a music venue featuring live music. The term is a Japanese coinage (wasei eigo) and is mainly used in East Asia. It most frequently refers to smaller...
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targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. or, in...
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English and Japanese also have diverse false friends, many of them being wasei-eigo and gairaigo words. The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic...
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others are unique to Japan or of Japanese origin, and form a kind of wasei eigo (Japanese-coined English). This is a list of Latin alphabet letter combinations...
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