Mockery mimicking a language, whats your view on it?

[Kulern]

I have heard most Japanese in the comments of this YouTube video, arent biggest fan of this. I guess to me
When all things fail. I tend to go with the Christian religious philosophy of (Is this a fact? No) Then i go with "Bless those who curse you".
However. I guess this may look different if we joke about French stereotypes, which is more local jokes in Western world.

But overall. Just curious what you think of this overall?


If i were to give some Western personal view on Asian languages between Chinese and Japanese. Feel free to read if you agree or disagree.
I would for example argue that i am not biggest fan of Chinese spoken languages, outside Gan Chinese which i think sounds nice and would be my preferable ones if i were a Chinese person. But to me, Mandarin and other Chinese spoken languages sounds as appealing as Danish language. But thats just if i were asked to being honest about my preferences.

Joke video on it in a Norwegian comedy skit


I think maybe the only criticism i could have of Japanese, is they dont add illusionary way of prolonging syllables into sounding like 1 word. For example
In English the word "Beautiful" are three syllables "Beau-ti-ful" But it has a illusionary way of making it sound like 1 word very quickly. In Japanese they have perhaps 1,2 or 3 words. (Well 1 if you count Hiragana and Katakana to the Japanese speaker). But difference is, you can hear it very literally and very sharply.

Thats maybe one thing lacking with Japanese. But, i do think Japanese is a cool sounding language to me. I had trouble learning the Kanjis which i plan on learning after i learn French or before. Depends on the mood.

 

[mdchachi]

He was clearly joking and not mean-spirited. I've seen videos of Japanese people mimicking English too. I don't believe they are mocking anything.

 

[Kulern]

He was clearly joking and not mean-spirited. I've seen videos of Japanese people mimicking English too. I don't believe they are mocking anything.

I think so too. Norwegians like this tends to joke like this, when they don't understand the language often.

You should hear how English speakers sounds like when they try to speak Scandinavian words. Its sorta like sliding on butter, its pretty gold!
Although this guy sounds good. However, his accent is very buttery. And thats how the accent sounds like when English speakers meets the ultra challenge of "Language that hits the words like nails here : D". I think its due to double consonants focused words we have in Norwegian language. Whereas English is way more of a flow type of language.

 

[Achilles 1-1]

Mimicking a language is fine as long as there's no malice behind it, however it's important to consider your audience. If you make a video mimicking a language, some Reddit mod might see it and spend eleven hours writing a novel of a response on why thats disrespectful.

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Say something "interesting" on Farcebook and get 982 comments , LOL. After Trump got in , Facebook shut down their horrible AI censorship program. They lost some lawsuit and now their dysfunctional censorship is back. If it screws up and you try to clear it up , they never bother to reply or change anything. I've been on there since 2007 and feel like a masochist for staying , LOL.

 

[Lothor]

I have heard most Japanese in the comments of this YouTube video, arent biggest fan of this. I guess to me
When all things fail. I tend to go with the Christian religious philosophy of (Is this a fact? No) Then i go with "Bless those who curse you".
However. I guess this may look different if we joke about French stereotypes, which is more local jokes in Western world.

But overall. Just curious what you think of this overall?


If i were to give some Western personal view on Asian languages between Chinese and Japanese. Feel free to read if you agree or disagree.
I would for example argue that i am not biggest fan of Chinese spoken languages, outside Gan Chinese which i think sounds nice and would be my preferable ones if i were a Chinese person. But to me, Mandarin and other Chinese spoken languages sounds as appealing as Danish language. But thats just if i were asked to being honest about my preferences.

Joke video on it in a Norwegian comedy skit


I think maybe the only criticism i could have of Japanese, is they dont add illusionary way of prolonging syllables into sounding like 1 word. For example
In English the word "Beautiful" are three syllables "Beau-ti-ful" But it has a illusionary way of making it sound like 1 word very quickly. In Japanese they have perhaps 1,2 or 3 words. (Well 1 if you count Hiragana and Katakana to the Japanese speaker). But difference is, you can hear it very literally and very sharply.

Thats maybe one thing lacking with Japanese. But, i do think Japanese is a cool sounding language to me. I had trouble learning the Kanjis which i plan on learning after i learn French or before. Depends on the mood.

Note that the video is 19 years old, and attitudes may have changed.
I like your use of 'buttery' to describe people's speech!

The thing I find annoying is the use of dumb-sounding Japanese speech to dub speech by foreign people on lowbrow TV programmes in Japan. Nobody speaks Japanese like that, whether they are Japanese or foreign. And it sounds like two people are employed for all the dubbing in Japan: one aggressive-sounding male and one female with an ultrafeminine breathless voice.

 

[Lothor]

Say something "interesting" on Farcebook and get 982 comments , LOL. After Trump got in , Facebook shut down their horrible AI censorship program. They lost some lawsuit and now their dysfunctional censorship is back. If it screws up and you try to clear it up , they never bother to reply or change anything. I've been on there since 2007 and feel like a masochist for staying , LOL.View attachment 136528

Use https: //www.facebook .com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr after deleting the spaces after the colon and 'Facebook'. This link removes all the crap from your feed and leaves you with posts from friends and groups. I've been using it for years.

 

[Kulern]

Note that the video is 19 years old, and attitudes may have changed.
I like your use of 'buttery' to describe people's speech!

The thing I find annoying is the use of dumb-sounding Japanese speech to dub speech by foreign people on lowbrow TV programmes in Japan. Nobody speaks Japanese like that, whether they are Japanese or foreign. And it sounds like two people are employed for all the dubbing in Japan: one aggressive-sounding male and one female with an ultrafeminine breathless voice.

This joke might be obvious but. There was a time when i couldn't tell the difference. So Chinese and Japanese seemed the same to me back then

 

[Ukigumo]

Anyone who is even remotely socially aware knows they have to assess every word they utter publicly and especially post online. Just don't do it.

 

[Grandpa Frank]

I think the filter between my brain & mouth died around when I turned 70 , LOL.

 

[Ukigumo]

View attachment 136550 I think the filter between my brain & mouth died around when I turned 70 , LOL.

Oh, ol' timers are allowed to do that, but that doesn't make you any less disliked.