Years later and I stumble upon this epic potential copyasta. Ranting about Japanese words or culture being used "incorrectly" by non Japanese is one of most epic things you can do on the internet. Thank you for your contribution.
Appreciate the kudos.
I agree, one of the most superior ways to be superior on the internet, is to know more about a foreign culture (especially
Japanese, or currently,
Korean) than your opponent(s); second only to
demonstrating a greater scientific knowledge.
The more
jargon and/or
specialist terms you can litter your post with, forcing your opponent(s) to have to look up them up and identify their meaning(s), the more you are
winning.
(Though this can be
countered by revealing that you have a
"friend" who is an expert (on said subject matter), as demonstrated by
@Ed209,
here and
@linearb,
here;
which trumps any opponents argument, ends the debate, and cannot be outdone).
The thing is, while I take
full credit for this
"epic potential copypasta", it was something of a fluke that it came to exist.
It was initially one-half of a rant about
duplicate threads and
miscategorization on Tinnitus Talk,
spiking my OCD, which our friendly neighbourhood
@erik then rectified in an attempt to extinguish the imminent panic attack I was about to suffer, leaving me to water down the original rant to
just this.
So yes, I am proud of
this, and definitely feel I have
won, as it has gone (as yet) unchallenged.
That said, it was my
"anti-vax" rants that were the thing that really catapulted me to infamy in such a short space of time. (I like to think I broke some sort of record for being added to the most ignore lists
within 2 months of having become a member here).
Ironically, after having spent many years watching debates, discussions and arguments from the sidelines on Tinnitus Talk, I thought it would be
@Michael Leigh's ignore list that I would first be added to on my participation -7 months later, he can still see my messages, and I've received nothing but a
warning from him, that I
may be added, should I cross the line of
appropriate banter (
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/posts/631415) - but it was instead
@linearb's ignore list I was first introduced to (someone I thought I might get on with, viewing from the outside). So there you go.
Anyway, digressing.
For the record, I don't consider
"anime" to be an
"incorrect" term, just a
nonsensical one; in the same way
"google" used as a verb is nonsensical. I'd like to make an "epic potential copypasta" on that also, but at this point in time can't justify it, given the lack of threads possessing even a tenuous link to the topic.