Subject: Re: [FFML] [SPAM] Use of Japanese in Stories (was:[FFML] [FF] Heart of the Home)
From: PhoneyNT
Date: 5/20/1996, 11:11 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Which English would you like? English English or American English? I guess
it's 'bad form' to write in 'English English' if you're going to read it
in America since that's another language.

don't put words in my mouth, please.

i wouldn't call English English that different from American English.
i had a cousin from England come to visit my family for a while.

All my stories have Japanese in them somewhere. If you don't like it, you
can lump it. I'm not going to stop writing some stuff in Japanese and I am
not going to write in American just to make it 'good form' for you, either.

anyways, you're right.  i suppose it's just a personal preference.
just like i think that approaching a lady at a bar and speaking a foreign
language to impress her is corny, so do i think the same of foreign
languages in stories where it's not necessary to the story.
and i can't argue with you if you don't even care what i think anways. :)

besides, _some_ words are better written in a foreign language :P

signed, phoneynt

p.s. on the side, is anyone but me bothered by the large number of 
katakana words i see that sound like english words?  i personally 
would not want my own language being impinged upon by english.
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