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Japlish

[ jap-lish ]

noun

  1. Japanese spoken or written with a large admixture of English words and expressions.
  2. English spoken or written with features characteristic of Japanese.


Japlish

/ ˈdʒæplɪʃ /

noun

  1. the adoption and adaptation of English words into the Japanese language Also calledJapanglish
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Japlish1

First recorded in 1955–1960; Jap(anese) + (Eng)lish
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Japlish1

C20: from a blend of Japanese + English
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Example Sentences

And as English has become a kind of lingua franca, all of us are fluent in Franglais and in Japlish.

Foreign languages do not simply acquire American terms, of course, but adapt and rework them in a sort of hybridization variously known as Franglais, Spanglish or Japlish.

Ads aimed at Westerners living in Japan are written in "Japlish"�a stilted Japanese version of English.

Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto.

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