Interesting Janglish words (和製英語 wasei-eigo)

Japanese has an interesting way to describe western terms which can not be directly translated into Japanese. Japanese uses “カタカナKatakana” for them, especially proper nouns such as “Grand Canyon” = グランドキャニオン which many American students had a hard time to write it correctly. There are linguistic aspects on this translation which I am not going to explain in here.

Moreover, there are words and terms in Katakana only exists in Japan. These are called “Janglish” or “和製英語 wasei eigo” which are the Japanese words consist of one or more English words. Often Japanese people misunderstands Janglish as English words. I believe that some words are from not only from English, but also from other languages; for example, “カステラ Castella” is derived from Portuguese meaning “sponge cake”. The words in the list below might be these borrowing words “外来語 gairaigo” from other languages.

Here is the list of Janglish words I though interesting.

I will go into the details of Katakana usage in Japanese, and will expand the list of Janglish soon.

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