You’re 10% of the way to speaking Japanese with this one trick
Now that we’ve got the click bait headline out of the way let’s get down to today’s lesson – basic Japanese pronunciation and how English is used and pronounced in everyday Japanese. One study suggests anywhere between 5% to 10% of modern Japanese is derived from English.
For a refresher on the needlessly complex writing systems used in Japanese I refer you back to fellow Glib straffinrun’s 5 Minute Japanese Lesson and Another 5 Minute Japanese Lesson.
We are just teaching Japanese pronunciation and loanwords so we are just going to use katakana and the western derived romaji. Romaji is the Japanese word for the roman characters that western language speakers already know. In the context of Japanese romaji is what is used to teach the gaijin and for signs and such within Japan to assist westerners.
Naturally, the Japanese couldn’t be bothered to use the same version of romaji that is used to teach foreigners, Hepburn, and created their own version called Kunrei-shiki. For our purposes, the two are mostly the same.
For those keeping count that means that are four “official” ways to write Japanese – kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romaji.
It sounds like what?
To an English speaker Japanese doesn’t share much vocabulary with English compared to Romance languages. It also has very different grammar and sentence construction. However, for an English speaker the pronunciation is very straightforward. Almost all the sounds in Japanese are already used in English. That means with a relatively short lesson we can have you able to read and pronounce Romanized Japanese words like names, places, movie titles, etc.
Let’s review the following chart:
The first row is katakana and the second row is romaji. We are only focusing on the reassuring roman characters at the bottom of each box. Focusing on just the “vowel” section the first row goes – a, i, u, e, o. The next row is ka, ki, ku, ke, ko. Are you beginning to see the pattern? It’s generally consonant (or consonant with a “y” sound) plus a, i, u, e, o.
Japanese generally doesn’t have the same concept as consonants and vowels in English. Instead Japanese’s building blocks are mora, essentially syllables. The chart above contains essentially every basic sound in Japanese. If you can pronounce these syllables then you can say anything in Japanese.
Don’t read Romanized Japanese as English!
The biggest mistake English speaker make is reading Romanized Japanese as English. There are no “long vowels” and “short vowels”. The vowels sounds for Japanese are:
A – sounds like the “a” in father
I – sounds like “ea” in “seat”
U – sounds like “oo” in “boo” as in what you say when you want to startle somebody
E – sounds like the “e” in “set”
O – sounds like “o” in “so”
English:
- Ban – prohibit (short “a”)
- Bane – a cause of great distress or annoyance (long a because of the “e” at the end)
Japanese:
- Bane (ばね)- spring (e.g. coil, leaf). It’s pronounced “bah neigh”. Notice unlike ban and bane that the Japanese is TWO syllables.
That’s really the biggest obstacle to reading Romanized Japanese – remember to only pronounce the vowels one way and to make the consonant and vowel pairs form syllables.
All the other stuff…
Naturally, it’s not quite that simple there are few other quirks and things to keep in mind.
- The “R” sound. Surprising few people, Japanese speakers have trouble distinguishing between “R” and “L”. Part of that reason is that depending on the word the sound fluctuates between what an English speaker hears as an “R” and “L”. In Japanese, the ra, ri, ru, re, ro row isn’t pronounced like an English “R”. The tongue starts at the top of the palate. I’m not a Spanish speaker, but have read it’s very similar to a Spanish “R”.
- Intonation and stress in Japanese is very different from English. It most certainly DOES exist, but for an English speaker trying to not sound ridiculously wrong in Japanese you are better off pronouncing everything “flat” and give equal weight to all the syllables. You’ll pretty much be wrong 100% of the time, but you will sound much more natural and mostly be understood. Much more so than using English stress.
- The “tsu” sound. This one just doesn’t exist in English. You are probably familiar with the word “tsunami”. It sounds a bit like clicking your tongue and saying the name “Sue”. Touching your tongue to the roof of your mouth is the key here and it is important as that is how you distinguish from the Japanese “su” sound. This distinction can be quite difficult to hear initially.
- The one “consonant” in Japanese ン or ん “N”. It’s a bit of an oddball, but the sound is the same as English. You are probably familiar with it from “hello” or “good day”, こんにちは or koN ni chi wa. Notice how this word doesn’t read or sound the way you are used to hearing it. That “N” attaches to the first syllable and phrase is FOUR syllables long.
- The small “tsu” or ッ. The small “tsu” in romaji is written as doubled consonant. I honestly have no idea how this crazy double consonant convention came to be. It’s used to signify a pause and has no effect on pronunciation. For example, ブック or bukku which can be used for “book”. In this you say “bu” briefly pause and say “ku”.
- I’ve saved the trickiest one for last. You will read doubled vowel sounds in romaji. Like the small “tsu” above this has nothing to with how the vowel sounds, instead it means you prolong the vowel sound. For example, ビル or “biru” means “building”. But ビール or “biiru” means “beer”. To say the word imagine it taking THREE syllables worth of time, but said as only TWO syllables – BII RU with an extension of the first sound.
- Tokyo – English spelling for the capital of Japan
- 東京- kanji for Tokyo and normally what you see in public signs
- But Tokyo can be properly written as とうきょう – in hiragana. Note the う character here. That’s telling you the Tokyo is pronounced “toukyou” (Hepburn) or Tōkyō (Kunrei-shiki). The marks over the “o” here tell you to extend the length of the vowel, but NOT to change the pronunciation. You’ll note here the doubled vowel is two different vowels o and u, but the sound is still “o”.
OK, let’s put our knowledge to work
Surprisingly, Wikipedia has lengthy page on gairaigo and wasei-eigo which mean “foreign words” and “Japanese-English words” respectively. I’ll pull some highlights here that you might find interesting. Naturally there are many, many more than what I’ve highlighted here and on the Wiki page.
For extra credit
I’ve selected an especially “useful” YouTube video for you to practice your newfound Japanese language skills. Like lots of J-Pop it contains actual English choruses to be “trendy” plus the English that has become part everyday usage in Japanese. Both English and Japanese subtitles are available if you click on the CC symbol.
I’d recommend watching it with English subtitles first so you can hear how Japanese people pronounce English. Big issues for Japanese speakers are the “th” sound and the final “t” sound in English. So for example. “thank you” becomes サンキュー or “san kyuu” and “heart” becomes ハート or “haato”.
If your stomach can take it I’d suggest watching it a second time with the Japanese subtitles. In the Japanese subtitles where you see English sentences and characters that’s an intentional insertion of English to be cool. Where you see English written in katakana that’s English that is in everyday use in Japanese language.
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187 responses to “Japanese Loanwords”
I’ve been drinking. I’ll have to come back to this tomorrow.
1st!
Not a problem if you’re German apparently.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/alcohol-helps-pronunciation-foreign-language/
Ya think? In my many years of learning German and watching other people learn German, I have noted a tendency for a learner to be skittish about pronouncing sounds correctly. In high school they would probably most honestly give the reason as “I don’t want to sound gay”. There are two ways to cure this. Move that person to Germany, or liquor him up. Even better, both.
Honestly the only way to speak a foreign language is to just do it and screw up massively.
But it goes against the grain of both teachers and students.
Yep. Sink or swim.
The Germans are pretty big on that method – it’s how they taught me to ski too, by taking a group of us beginners up to the mountaintop and basically pushing us down.
Plus it makes for great stories when you screw up.
I meant girl and instead used maiden or virgin. My friend laughed and laughed.
I speak just enough French to make the French speak English.
I would call our office near LeMans beginning with my best French formalities, and they would immediately reply in English.
My German I pronounce like the Schwabische I was around, so I’m an obvious southerner and hick both there and in the US.
Me too.
I make jokes about only knowing enough German to embarrass myself in front of a native speaker, but in reality they’ve been quite forgiving and understanding.
The first time I visited my German relatives as a 17-year-old I was amazed at how many people were impressed that I had a reasonable (but by no means fluent) command of the language.
Cousin Angela was an effective teacher: every time I messed up the grammar, she’d restate my comment as a question using the people’s grammar.
Er, “proper” grammar, fucking auto-correct.
People’s grammar, people’s wagon. It’s all good.
I have no desire to speak Nipponese, please cancel my Subscription…..
tsu- easiest way for me say “cats” and then drop the “ca”, so you have “ts”.
r sound- I’ve found this video’s exercises to be helpful. Can’t do it well, but better than before.
“ts”
also available in tsetse fly, the only way I learned to pronounce zwei
The sound is in pizza, but not deep dish.
I didn’t know you were studying Japanese too!
Slightly. I’ve been somewhat working on it for about a year & a half, but ended up studying Mandarin waiting for a class to start at the local CC (which when one was offered ended up being mostly a waste of time, but did help with writing hiragana).
I actually found Chinese to helpful with some of the Japanese language constructs & pronunciations, but I’m still at the level of a handful of phrases & recognizing some kanji & hiragana as words.
I think I’m learning Japanese,
I think I’m learning Japanese,
I really think so.
I broke my wife’s heart when I explained that song to her.
*googles*
Wow, learn something new every day.
You got her picture? You got her picture?
86-239
54 46
The hachi roku!
When we stopped making cars with pop-up headlights is when world civilization started to crumble.
Mazda RX7 last gen turbo was always on my short list.
Great minds (and cars).
I had a 1984 GSL-SE that I still dream of…
+1 RX-7
Dorito Squad Assemble!
I have no idea what that means.
Think of the engine.
Duh.
I read a rumor of a new one, so maybe all is not lost!
+1 oil control failure
867-5309
Since, we’re doing AKB48, I’ll just put this here. The Hawktown Mall (to the left of the crowd) has since been demolished, but the Yahuoku! Dome (home of the SoftBank Hawks) in the background is there still there.
Full confession that is one of my favorite AKB48 songs. People in the video look like they are having a blast.
My daughter loves AKB48. I always intentionally mispronounce it as “Nikibi48”. She hates that.
Is it OK I like Nogizaka 46 too?
For everyone else rival group named after a building that house Sony Music.
I don’t know Jack about any of those type of bands. Weird to me that Morning Musume is teaching middle age. Morning Milfume.
And English too
https://youtu.be/eXpyr0aVkHM
That guy is Albert Camus’ grandson IIRC.
Oops. Was his great uncle.
How many people are in that “band”?
Around 130.
Is it a government program?
Very nice, however, I don’t think it’s gonna usurp the Destination Calabria as my go to youtube video,
I worked with the Japanese for years but only learned a few formalities; I never attempted to understand conversation or any of the written language.
But a great deal of my technical speech has been Japanese for decades. Since Japan was the first country to adopt the wisdom of Deming, the global definitions and culture of quality science are Japanese words. Wasteful industrial design is “muda.” Industrial redesign is “kaizen.” Workplace organization is a discipline characterized as “5S,” each which is usually taught in English using mnemonic approximations.
Industrial quality is entirely too much to get into here (or even in an article), but I’ll just say that I long ago added a big part of their culture to how I work and how I weigh what I see; to have such a huge Japanese influence fits well with the French phrases I can’t replace, the Spanish culture I lived around for 20 years, and the German world I worked in for eight years. As the kids say, it’s all good.
The guys who learn the names for each type of muda really irritate me: waste is not a pet to be named; I’m about recognizing and eliminating waste, not fetishizing it.
PMP cert. study guide makers need to eat too, you know.
Really, there multiple “mudas”?
むだ【無駄, 徒】
な-adjective, noun
futility, uselessness, pointlessness
According to Toyota, there are 7.
Is that the number of cars in their current lineup?
SAVAGE!
Some people are into coprophilia, you know.
muddah ?
Good god this is some amazing stuff.
Back to basics. Useful stuff.
How is the the Japanese made some of the best synthesizers, drum machines, recording equipment, etc. of all time, but their music generally sucks ass?
The same could be said of any country. 99.97% of music is terrible.
Pareto distribution?
True, the Japanese had the capital to build electronics. And cars. Just like the U.S. Where the people working on the assembly lines in Detroit made enough money to buy their kids instruments and music lessons. Which resulted in Motown. Which was awesome.
That isn’t true. England and U.S. are the only other countries famous for making recording equipment (although, Germany was known for making microphones, monitors, and lathes). And their musicians pretty much dominated the recording industry.
Love my Sennheiser HD600 headphones.
Germans had an uncanny knack for transducers.
I just meant the “music generally sucks ass” part.
^ Truth.
OK. Overly pop music is generally insufferable. But lets just look at one instrument. And I’ll ignore all the Spaniards, Cubans, and Brazilians, who could destroy Jimmy Page unplugged. And just narrow it down to very electric, not jazz or classical, guitar. How, with all their electronic wizardry, and being the ones making many of the pedals and amplifiers, there is no Japanese guitarist anywhere like Jimi Hendrix or Robert Fripp? It just seems odd.
I’d have problems really trying to quantify quality comparing folks, but there are some great Japanese guitarists too – they just generally don’t get the same sort of exposure as US/UK folks. I mean I don’t have a real eye/ear for distinguishing between some folks once you get to a certain skill level – I can recognize some techniques as being more unique/difficult, but in general…
https://youtu.be/ZLFI2bxpK8w
In my limited experience, most of the Japanese virtuoso musicians seem to be drawn to jazz. (e.g., Kaori Kobayashi)
I just sort of skimmed through that. Prima facie, it sounds like competent, but very unoriginal sax playing. I want to hear a Japanese Stan Getz or John Coltrane. Nothing against the Japanese. Half my stuff was made in Japan. I just find it odd that such a populous, prosperous country, also noted for their intelligence and productivity, with few exceptions, only seems to make derivative pop, or play other people’s jazz and classical compositions.
I think you hit upon something. A Coltrane requires a culture of individuality.
Does Marty Friedman count as Japanese?
Boku no ude wo tsukatte kudasai. Someone has been stealing my train moves.
That is hysterical. Even though I knew right where it was going.
すかーとジャパン is the only show I watch on Japanese TV. Monday at 8pm.
I just read they haven’t made an Ultra Quiz” in 25 years.
Very interesting Sensei. I wish I had language ability (3yrs HS spanish- no bueno..3yrs in germany- neine gudt)
Can’t do J-pop. soo
How about enka with an urban twist…
https://youtu.be/DqSA5VgV1ew
I actually went to hear Jero in NYC. He sings traditionally.
How about some urban gunka?
Jero was nice nightclub/big band ish.
HM ..Not sure what that was. Cadence? and why don’t they have slings?
Miyasan is a famous war song. Those guys were Boshin War reenactors, and the guys in light blue were the Shinsengumi.
As for why they don’t have slings, I don’t know. Nothing I could find suggests that they shouldn’t. But uniforms and arms were barely standardized.
Japan seems….
odd.
We were all thinking it.
I wasn’t. You guys don’t jam wooden scoops in your ear canals?
Carbon fiber. We’re modern.
Of all the things you picked that? I’m still chuckling.
For me it must be that the language has like 20 pronouns that everyone goes to great pains to avoid using.
Anime metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EeYxtAeaX4
You familiar with Wagakki Band?
https://youtu.be/K_xTet06SUo
You didn’t warn him of Wagakki Band’s “bishonen” trap?
I most certainly did the triple take the first time I saw him.
And while we’re on the subject of both Senbonzakura and gender-queering, I’m sure you’ve seen this before.
Yes, shocked me.
And to blow everyone else’s minds this is the original.
https://youtu.be/9-B8LnBNwO8
We’re quite familiar with Riven’s work here.
I’ll also admit a fondness for Vocaloid music. But the dark, twisted shit by MASA.
This is MASA’s most famous song – very ero-guro!
Dark, twisted Japanese music
I prefer Rick Astley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguPH0XBxdw
This is the Polish version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA
For some bizarre reason, this was in the sidebar of the Penderecki video for me.
“I believe in happy accidents.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuYndvNkiA8
That one is new to me. The whole vocaloid scene is really interesting to me. It lets what synthesizers did for amateur musicians be done for singing.
Hatsune Miku was a WSJ A Hed some years ago and I’ve never been able to find the article again.
More anime metal – the entire OST for this anime is pretty solid: https://youtu.be/AGoCOvxUK1Q
I’ve actually watched that anime. Definitely mixed opinion. Thumbs up on the music, however.
just finished season 1
As long as we’re doing Jpop, I’ll drop this here as well, since she hung up her microphone last month. Nice recut of the original music video.
I’ll link some B’z for SoberPhobic as soon as I get drunk enough.
If I can figure out the double “L” in Welsh, “tsu” will be a cinch. Easiest way to make the sound is to hiss while making a velar “L”, while simultaneouslypretending to have a speech impediment. Being drunk is advisable.
Yeah, that one’s a doozie. At least “ts” is familiar to anyone who knows German or Italian. “ll” is pretty damn oddball especially for a language in Europe.
It’s most commonly encountered in native American languages. The formal name is the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative. The voiced version is even rarer, showing up in only 8 languages, so Welsh could be weirder.
Phonology was one of my funner linguistics classes. It gets really weird in a lot of places.
Pronouciation of Japanese really is simple. Grammar and literacy are the hard parts.
The grammar isn’t terrible from what little I’ve seen; or, at least I’ve seen worse. The worst part of it seems to be the way it shifts to reflect relative social status.
The writing would be fine if they dropped Kanji. Hiragana and katakana sends a bit redundant, but I’m not going to throw stones seeing how hopeless English orthography is, but logographs are the worst, followed closely by abjads.
Yes both social status and relationship with the speaker. So i can humble my own actions or elevate somebody else. And I can do so politely or in familiar form.
The post positional part isn’t so bad, but the construction of a sentence just isn’t what you’d think it to be in English. You can make a one for one English substitution that is grammatical, but usually really awkward. Getting rid of that awkwardness is really hard.
Same in German, believe it or not. Almost any sentence that isn’t a toy example is going to constructed by natives in a way that’s weird to us.
Thai has serial verbs. A sentence can string together 3 to 4 verbs with no subjects in between. “I’m going to call him back” scans as “I will call go find come”.
I’ve seen something similar in Mandarin. There’s little or nothing to connect those verbs. Even better, there’s a method to the madness.
Makes sense. There is a lot of overlap between the grammar and vocabulary of the Tai-Kadai and the Sino-Tibetan language families, which is why they were once considered one family.
Can’t be too hard to find come in Thailand.
My Mandarin instructor calls it caveman grammar.
If it wasn’t for the ideograms, it would be a relatively simple to pick up. Just building vocab.
Perhaps THIS sheds some cultural light on things?
No, not quite, but, funny?
Just finished England v Colombia.
Oh HELL yeah!
Thanks everyone. I’m calling it a night here on the east coast.
Thanks so much for writing, Sensei! While completely terrible at other languages, I am nevertheless fascinated by them.
Detroit students can’t even learn their native language. I wonder how their per student spending ranks? I bet it’s up there.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/judge-students-have-no-constitutional-right-to-literacy/1282299385
I wonder how that ruling with jive with Lau v. Nichols.
Judge said there is no Constitutional right to literacy. Cited case addresses a civil rights statute. These are different things.
My Tarrahassee Rassie down in F…R..A..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhI-g12U8AAl886.jpg
Okay, I lol’d at that.
I reached the end of the article.
I have realized that none of it sank in.
I still have a good deal of Anglosphere left to explore, so I don’t think this will impede me in my travels.
Have we already discussed how Ron Paul needs to stop having people write shit for him – be it newsletters or tweets?
Checked TOS (Doherty). The comments on that … Hinh wasn’t completely insane. Thought I was hallucinating.
Also, I have a dream. A dream where racists, race baiters, misandrists, misogynists, elitists and losers all have a seat at the table and a knife fight breaks out.
I know he has published, in one form or another, some racist stuff. But what do you find objectionable about the tweet you linked?
Something along the lines of “Me thinks Thou dost protest too much”. At least that’s what me thinks HM thinks.
I think the objections were to the ethic depictions in the image shown in the 2nd tweet.
Caricatures are just that; when did we start getting offended by them? Like I said the other night, I remember when leftists made Minoriteam. And stereotypical art in of itself wasn’t seen as evil, the message behind that art is what did. Oh, the long ago days of less than 20 years ago.
Yeah, but that /pol Jew is deliberately made to evoke Nazi propaganda and provoke normies. Why do it when you know it’ll start a feeding frenzy?
Maybe because, FYTW? Seems to work for the other teams. Or, the fact that I’m stumped at 35 why someone would be offended by a cartoon and Ron Paul is what, in his 80s? He’s probably still grateful he doesn’t have to shit in an outhouse anymore, when you the world has changed that much in your lifetime I can see just not giving a shit, and pretty much just doing what we do here.
That’s funny. Where did Minoriteam first air?
It was on Cartoon Network, owned at the time by Ted Turner.
No shit. Was it part of Adult Swim?
Yes, I think third season of Adult Swim.
It was, what….2006ish? Since the voice of Master Shake is the lead character in Minoriteam, it hit just after ATHF caught on.
Thanks
IMDB says ot 5 to ot 6
Ahead of its time (or, too late), and far too short.
Then again, I really miss Stroker and Hoop
Yes, Stroker and Hoop. Classic.
Yeah…I knew you were good people.
+1 Reggie White.
Politicians deserve to be shat on for trying to co-opt athletes’ glory.
Thanks. I missed it. That is offensive.
Seriously, one racist outburst is a misfortune. Two start to seem like carelessness!
Yes it does. Here it may be recklessness.
I’m proud to be a shitlord and at least You know I’m reeeeee.
And I won’t forget the cucks who cried, who gave those tears to me.
And I’d gladly meme up Pepe next to herself and misegender her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this Net! Kek bless the shadilay.
Hi, y’all! Just checking in to say Hi and I’m alive.
Still an almost daily lurker; hope to become a regular again after the dust settles some more.
It’s been fun to see the new names start posting. Glibertarians forever!
She’s ALIVE!
I’m picturing a bouffant with a lightning bolt of white now.
I have enough hair for a red bouffant, but i dye the white temple streaks away and lack sufficient quantities of Final Net.
Good to know you are still with us.
Hey, ‘splodygirl. Glad things are going OK, even if hectic.
Come back soon!
Wow. Ohio gozaimas, Sensei…
I started playing my bass again, and realized how much I’ve forgotten/lost over my move/mourning period; I couldn’t play Toys in the Attic but about halfway.
More on topic: I totally forgot how to play any Loudness songs. Also, the lyrics. I’ll have to work on that.
Keep going with Aerosmith. It’s much better.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking; I wasn’t sure it was PC on this thread, though.
There is a contingent of hard rock/metal lovers here. You can’t go wrong praising 70s Aerosmith.
And I’ll just come right out and say it, Loudness was a novelty act in America. I know they are huge in Japan. Except for one or two songs they fell flat in the USA.
That video never fulfilled its promise. A room full of Kobe Tai impersonators and not one sexual touch. Cue sad trombone.
Asian women will be the downfall of the white race; and it is one I look forward to.
You would think between the two of us the Q signal would be lit.
Asian women don’t have as many fake boobs per capita, so there’s that…
You guys are fuckin’ cucks, if’n they don’t speak ‘merican; then we should done shootem!
BTW, I finally saw your Prequels edit, and it was great! I seriously haven’t seen them since they were in theaters, and yet every annoyance I remember from them was expunged.
Sadly, so was Darth Plagis story. I guess you couldn’t have known Prequel Memes would become a thing nearly two decades later…
Darth Plagis was always one of those things that didn’t need to be in the story. It would be ok in lore, but the way the third movie was structured, it didn’t make sense where it was. As it is in my edit, the appeal to save Padme should have been Palpatine’s fatal blow to bring Anakin to the dark side. If the story of Darth Plagis were originally presented in that final scene, I may have included it. But it didn’t belong in the first act of the film.
Oh no question, it comes out of nowhere and isn’t well followed up.
And I can’t describe my relief when they enter droid factory, and my cringe defenses come up since I remember how much I hated that sequence…and it’s done in 60 seconds or so! God, that was my “worst SW thing ever” till Planet Libertarian in TLJ.
The Last Jedi is the first time I didn’t care to finish watching a Star Wars movie. I didn’t care to pay to see it in the theatre, so I streamed it off a website, and the stream stalled cuz I have a slow connection and I just said ‘fine’ and shut it off.
I say this as a grown man with a full-size R2-D2 and spent all that time editing the prequels. I didn’t care enough about the Last Jedi to finish watching a free pirated stream.
Meh…not enough space hookers there. At least, not that were readily visible.
And really, space elephant giraffe horses that weren’t being used as sex slaves as well? Those guys had no idea how to libertarian.
Well, consent matters in my glibs fantasy world, so I won’t go that far.
Although, I gotta give RJ a little credit for making their security force look like (half-assed) Viper pilots.
Can animals give consent?
Well, no, which was my point. I mean, if you wanna do a romp with a space hooker on the back of antelope-horsey, be my guest. They seemed hearty enough to tote a bang party around the city.
Well (if you read my personal VS political article you’ll know this is entirely academic) if an animal can’t give consent, can they then NOT not give consent? If they can’t do the positive, it then follows they can’t do the negative.
That was a really weird thought to write out, but it needs to be done! I sleep now.
Also, whipping valuable animals instead of lazy orphans? Irresponsible.
That’s what happens when Disney tries to make a scathing critique of capitalism, theme parks and profiteering off cuteness.
I grew up on a 200 acre working farm in East Texas. We had two 12 thousand capacity chicken houses that equaled 250 thousand chicks a year. Fourty acres of Costal Bermuda which meant we could keep 100 head of cattle fed through the winter.
One year my parents planted 40 acres of watermelons. Right nefore our crop got ripe they we bringing 6 cents a pound. Three weeks later the market was at 3 cents and falling. We finally found someone who bought the entirel 40 acres and they wrote my parents a hot check that was never collected. The next year they planred corn. From that year forward they were paid by the government more to not plant corn than they sold the corn for.
Between my freshman and sophmore years I spent the summer riding the rails in Europe. Everyone talks about how wonderful London is and how gay Pariee is.
I saw the middle class living in little crampted apartments cooking on a two burner hotplate while middle class Americans had swimming pools in their back yards and two cars in the garage.
I came home enthused with Capitalism andvopened my own business at 20 years old while still a full time student.
As an adult I have never had a job with a salary nor have I ever punched a clock
Violence against timepieces is actually very satisfying.