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Can the term メリークリスマス be seen as politically incorrect?
In some countries, some people avoid using "Merry Christmas" and instead say Happy Holidays:
Thought by some to be a politically correct alternative to Merry
Christmas and/or Happy New Year when ...
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Is くろじん a word?
I used to call black people くろじん, either because I mistakenly read 黒人{こくじん} as such or because I heard it somewhere (or both), until I was told by another Japanese learner that こくじん is more ...
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“Dyke” and “Femme”
Warning! This question contains at least one, possibly, derogatory word. I appologise if readers are offended.
A friend of mine asked me to translate a passage from a poem in British English into ...
