Yeah, I know this is just begging for dA drama, but y'know what? Whatev.

I've been taking Japanese for going on seven years now, and Wapanese drives me up a wall. If chatspeak is raping English, then Wapanese is the collective fandoms gangbanging Japanese.

EDIT: As ~A-l-e-x-99 pointed out, a lot of people are misreading the following sentence. I'll try to reword it and make it as clear as humanly possible.

I'm not saying that people should be banned from using loanwords like "sushi" or "kimono" or "anime" if they have never studied Japanese. No studying Japanese = absolutely no Japanese whatsoever = NOT WHAT I MEAN. Loanwords are a key part of every language, not just English, so alls y'alls waving the 'racism' flag because I'm only picking on Wapanese here (don't even get me started on that logic) need to rethink that. Loanwords are great! Have a Loanword Party! Serve sushi and filet mignon!

But unless you're willing to actually learn Japanese, attempting to use what you've heard in bootleg anime is....ill-advised, at best. Rarely do people actually know what they're saying, and it kinda makes them sound like tools. And I'll admit that in the long past, I spoke a wee bit o' Wapanese myself. Which is why I post this now--to try to keep people from making as big an ass out of themselves as I did. As it clearly results in eaten babies.

Again, if you're actually trying to study the language, you're great. I have absolutely no problem with people who put thought into what they're saying. But if your friend Sacky-chan who "lives in Kyoto" and who you met through Neopets is teaching you Japanese and tells you the "ne" in "neko" sounds like "knee"? Your friend Sacky-chan is lying. Sacky is a forty-year-old man in Virginia typing to you and other fourteen-year-olds one-handed.

Don't be a tool. Know what you're saying. Or the babies get it.

Speaking of which, the roots of this are in a picture ~lychee-twist and I were working on; once I actually get around to coloring it, I might slap it up. It's for a panel I might do on basic Japanese for KumoriCon.