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It likely came about in the early 20th century as I explained.
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It likely came about in the early 20th century as I explained.
Sorry my mentions got crazy for a bit and I misfired.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sorry my mentions got crazy for a bit and I misfired.
I don't know what you are trying to say. I jusy provided one of many examples of yankee use in Japanese before WWII to mean "delInquent."
No one is arguing thatヤンキー didn't come from English. But it certainly did not come from the occupation. Hell imperial Japan was using the word itself during WW2
No one is arguing thatヤンキー didn't come from English. But it certainly did not come from the occupation. Hell imperial Japan was using the word itself during WW2
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
After I left America, I began noticing it. It isn't a bad thing. Americans like shitting on America and Americans. It usually isn't in complete earnest, but you know what I mean.
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
After I left America, I began noticing it. It isn't a bad thing. Americans like shitting on America and Americans. It usually isn't in complete earnest, but you know what I mean.
No doubt it is a loanword of "yankee" meaning American. My disagreement is with it coming from "specifically American soldiers during WWII occupation"
I have given reasons, examples, and my ideas of where it comes from in my recent replies posts. Sorry I don't feel like retyping it all again.
I have given reasons, examples, and my ideas of where it comes from in my recent replies posts. Sorry I don't feel like retyping it all again.
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
No doubt it is a loanword of "yankee" meaning American. My disagreement is with it coming from "specifically American soldiers during WWII occupation"
I have given reasons, examples, and my ideas of where it comes from in my recent replies posts. Sorry I don't feel like retyping it all again.
I have given reasons, examples, and my ideas of where it comes from in my recent replies posts. Sorry I don't feel like retyping it all again.
Read again. That is not what they said. Not even chronologically.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Read again. That is not what they said. Not even chronologically.
Even though those connotations come from a view of Americans, it was not "specifically WWII occupation soldiers".
I cannot stand US military personnel here in Japan. They are the worst. But I gotta say this one time, it wasn't their fault.
I cannot stand US military personnel here in Japan. They are the worst. But I gotta say this one time, it wasn't their fault.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Even though those connotations come from a view of Americans, it was not "specifically WWII occupation soldiers".
I cannot stand US military personnel here in Japan. They are the worst. But I gotta say this one time, it wasn't their fault.
I cannot stand US military personnel here in Japan. They are the worst. But I gotta say this one time, it wasn't their fault.
And then when that specific Japanese counter culture style spread in post-war Japan, people described it with the same word. That is when it got associated with a look, but it had delinquent connotations in the early 20th century.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
And then when that specific Japanese counter culture style spread in post-war Japan, people described it with the same word. That is when it got associated with a look, but it had delinquent connotations in the early 20th century.
If you ask me, it seems to me that the view of Americans in media at the time was denoted with ヤンキー instead of just アメリカ人 to distinguish between that style and attitude rather than the nationality. You can see this in 1920s reviews of western film calling things ヤンキー式アメリカ人 for yankee style American
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
If you ask me, it seems to me that the view of Americans in media at the time was denoted with ヤンキー instead of just アメリカ人 to distinguish between that style and attitude rather than the nationality. You can see this in 1920s reviews of western film calling things ヤンキー式アメリカ人 for yankee style American
Where did you read any credible etmyology that it specifically came from post war occupation soldiers?
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Where did you read any credible etmyology that it specifically came from post war occupation soldiers?
I don't know what you are trying to say. I jusy provided one of many examples of yankee use in Japanese before WWII to mean "delInquent."
No one is arguing thatヤンキー didn't come from English. But it certainly did not come from the occupation. Hell imperial Japan was using the word itself during WW2
No one is arguing thatヤンキー didn't come from English. But it certainly did not come from the occupation. Hell imperial Japan was using the word itself during WW2
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I don't know what you are trying to say. I jusy provided one of many examples of yankee use in Japanese before WWII to mean "delInquent."
No one is arguing thatヤンキー didn't come from English. But it certainly did not come from the occupation. Hell imperial Japan was using the word itself during WW2
No one is arguing thatヤンキー didn't come from English. But it certainly did not come from the occupation. Hell imperial Japan was using the word itself during WW2
From Yoshigoro Kimura's "Latest Hawaii Journey Guidance - A Free Immigrant's View of Hawaii" from 1904. He describes how Hawaii's major cities were not deserted paradises, but multicultural western cities, in which he describes children of various races as delinquents using the word "yankee".
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
From Yoshigoro Kimura's "Latest Hawaii Journey Guidance - A Free Immigrant's View of Hawaii" from 1904. He describes how Hawaii's major cities were not deserted paradises, but multicultural western cities, in which he describes children of various races as delinquents using the word "yankee".
People really believe any word etymology you give them that sounds remotely plausible without checking. It has to he among the the topics people are most gullible about.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
People really believe any word etymology you give them that sounds remotely plausible without checking. It has to he among the the topics people are most gullible about.
I forgot to include the detail that this record is referring to non-white children in Hawaii.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I forgot to include the detail that this record is referring to non-white children in Hawaii.
Don't believe everything you read online. This is likely not true. The word entered Japanese far before the occupation. As far back as 1904, the word was used in Japanese to refer to delinquent non-white children.
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Don't believe everything you read online. This is likely not true. The word entered Japanese far before the occupation. As far back as 1904, the word was used in Japanese to refer to delinquent non-white children.
I know it is easy to believe this because Americans are so self deprecating, but please delete misinformation.
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I know it is easy to believe this because Americans are so self deprecating, but please delete misinformation.
Don't believe everything you read online. This is likely not true. The word entered Japanese far before the occupation. As far back as 1904, the word was used in Japanese to refer to delinquent non-white children.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Don't believe everything you read online. This is likely not true. The word entered Japanese far before the occupation. As far back as 1904, the word was used in Japanese to refer to delinquent non-white children.
I have to wear compression, and noevI am gunna tell my doctor we call compression socks "cocks" for short in English.
September 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I have to wear compression, and noevI am gunna tell my doctor we call compression socks "cocks" for short in English.
Take this!
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September 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Have another bish.
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September 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Have another bish.
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Gotta throw in the occasional combo so you know the standard Tokon Mag has to live up to.
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(my st. fwd sjc confirms kinda nice)
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(my st. fwd sjc confirms kinda nice)
September 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Gotta throw in the occasional combo so you know the standard Tokon Mag has to live up to.
@marveltokon.bsky.social
(my st. fwd sjc confirms kinda nice)
@marveltokon.bsky.social
(my st. fwd sjc confirms kinda nice)