| 释义 |
Japlish|ˈdʒæplɪʃ|
[f. Japanese n. + English n.]
A blend of Japanese and English spoken in Japan: either the Japanese language freely interlarded with English expressions or the English language spoken in an unidiomatic way by a Japanese speaker. Also attrib. or adj.
1960N.Y. Times 25 Dec. 3/5 (caption) New traffic instructions, written in ‘Japlish’, cause linguistic bewilderment. 1963Harper's Mag. Jan. 54 A great many Japanese speak English nowadays (or at least ‘Japlish’, as the American colony calls it), and their words are usually understandable. 1966Time 22 July 30 Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto. 1970Times 26 Nov. 12 A word of warning to tourists and others: the Japlish veneer can be deceptive. The Japanese may use more English words, but they still think like Japanese. 1970Bull. Inst. Res. Lang. Teaching (Tokyo) CCXCIII. 13 There are, moreover, hosts of ‘Japlish’..words and expressions, such as ‘old miss’..(meaning ‘old maid’ or ‘spinster’). |