Talk:Iowa/@comment-35182244-20160722015644

Due to the recent edit squabble between a certain anon and our editors, namely me. I have had to raise the protection level of Iowa's page. My sincerest apologies to the rest of our anons, but if you have time, please leave a comment here in case you have anything you wish to add onto Iowa's page and I will see what I can do.

Said anon has been quite keen on any topic related to U.S and has a nice little track record of butting heads with people, going as far as vandalizing their personal user pages, too. Anyway, I'll leave these here for the public: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.59.117.238 http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.59.115.72

http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Laughingnewmc http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/58.94.20.209 http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User:Iamtheyes http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User:Laughingdragons http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/129.8.235.54 http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Laughingnewmc

Alright tovarish Laughingnova. I'd suggest you leave that there due to it having potential interest to linguists such as myself and many others, instead of insisting on your little "Japanese Engrish".

In linguistics there is a thing called target audience. This leads to a selection of choices that would make someone majoring in English flips their table, but to their intended audience, namely, the Japanese, this is a valid and comfortable choice, and perfectly normal. Imagine the improper usage of English 50 years ago in Japan, or anywhere else in Asia. Overtime this improper usage becomes the new accepted norm and is thus used, much to the horror of you and I. These are what we call pidgins or creoles. A Japanese person with perfect English skills understands the Engrish put respects it instead of trying to rectify it, since they know that this Engrish is not trying to be English, it is your mistake to simply assume it is. And quite frankly, I think I like it this way, language evolves to suit the needs of its user, Japanese are perfectly fine with Engrish, so let them use it that way. China, Singapore, HK, India and the U.S all have their own versions of English with their own dialects. Localized vocabulary and influences from their own language.

In summary, the choice of Engrish is not the general incompetence of the Japanese. It is their choice to cater to their locality rather than to please the global English-speaking world. If you still do not like my decision, I suggest you deal with it, tovarish.