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| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Wait, how is a movie that takes place totally in Japan LESS authentic if they are speaking in Japanese, their native tongue?  |
Nearly every Japanese person is taught english growing up.
Furthermore, their language structure is divided into three symbol styles: Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji.
Anyway, long story short to avoid breaking your small mind, Katakana is an adaptation of "sounds" rather than letters. It is based upon English (created after WWII during occupation), which is why Japanese people have the interesting dialect that they have.
Basically, Katakana allows the japanese to adapt to a changing world with multiple dialects in nearly the same level of efficiency as English does. Saying an English word, or a French word, in Katakana will sound like the English or French word, while still being understood by the native speaker as Japanese. (same way "sushi" is an english word, that is actually adapted from japanese directly, katakana might take, for example, 'McDonalds', which is said the same way ... 'McDonalds'. Well, almost, haha...)
So how's that for authentic? Ignorant american.
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