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Emoji does not have a plural in Japanese, so stop trying to make emojis happen. In the long run, I would have preferred Gretchen make fetch happen rather than
by forgottenpass 10y ago
Emoji does not have a plural in Japanese, so stop trying to make emojis happen.
In the long run, I would have preferred Gretchen make fetch happen rather than Regina make this turn of phrase happen.
- krapp 10y agoOnce English speakers start using it, it's no longer a Japanese word, and doesn't have to follow Japanese rules. "DVD" has four syllables in Japanese. Stuff like that just happens with loanwords sometimes.
- gcr 10y ago(Q from a beginner Japanese student: where's the fourth syllable in ディーブイディー? Does ブイ count as two mora and ディー counts as one?)
- fenomas 10y ago> it's no longer a Japanese word, and doesn't have to follow Japanese rules No word ever has to follow any rules. Nonetheless it's pretty typical for loan words to keep rules like this from the source language, at least until different usage becomes widespread.
- lake99 10y ago> Nonetheless it's pretty typical for loan words to keep rules like this from the source language I wouldn't even know of the japanese rules to "keep" when pluralizing "emoji". Apart from that, as an city-dwelling Indian, quite a lot of our language borrows words from English and Hindi when we are not speaking either of these languages. The rules are always that of the target language, rather than the source language.
- skissane 10y agoThere's a decent history in English of "borrow the pluralisation rules of the source language". Many English dictionaries accept cherubim as a plural of cherub, seraphim as a plural of seraph, aquaria as a plural of aquarium, criteria as a plural of criterion, phenomena as a plural of phenomenon, referenda as a plural of referendum, fora as a plural of forum, etc. Now, maybe this approach only applies to languages which English-speakers have traditionally considered as culturally prestigious or authoritative. Arguably that's true of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, traditionally not so for Japanese.