It's just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners smuglord

Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    9 months ago

    Agreed. Some countries have a word specifically for a person from their country. But if you're just using the adjective, it's weird.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      9 months ago

      It's not about the adjective, it's about the suffix - adjectives ending in -n are considered normal (an american, a german, a paraguayan), but adjectives ending in -ese are considered to sound weird and need a "person" adding afterwards (a chinese, a congolese, a portuguese).

      For once I'm pretty sure this isn't a racism thing, just an "the english language is a fucking mess made up of more exceptions than rules" thing.

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        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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          9 months ago

          There we go, you see it in "a Dutch" and "an Irish" too, because they're singular and plural, and don't see it in stuff like "a Pole" or "a Scot" because they have a different plural form.
          Guess I was wrong, for once it is an actual rule.

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