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Anime didn’t change after 9/11, but 9/11 changed how I watched anime.


Language is a dwelling factor.

With a current deluge of worldwide vacationers to Japan and lots extra aspirants, it might be no shock that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has as soon as extra inducted a bunch of Japanese phrases into the English lexicon — lower than two years after 23 entries from Japanese, starting from “kintsugi” (a way for mending damaged pottery with melted gold) to “yakiniku“ (grilled meat), had been integrated.

Whereas the 2024 set was predominantly gastronomic in nature, the most recent record of 11 phrases is considerably scattershot and sure to boost some eyebrows.



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