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In Japanese, ‘NG’ is used for ‘not good’. (Japan seems to like its pseudo-English initialisms — BGM [background music], SNS [social network services], OP/ED [o
by Tijdreiziger 2y ago
In Japanese, ‘NG’ is used for ‘not good’.
(Japan seems to like its pseudo-English initialisms — BGM [background music], SNS [social network services], OP/ED [opening/ending], etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Latin_alphabetic_abbreviations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Latin_alphabe...
- jhbadger 2y agoA lot of languages like pseudo-English words. German calls mobile phones "Handy". Apparently it dates back to a defunct brand name of Motorola walkie-talkies (two-way handheld radios common from the 1940s-1990s).