The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
www.theguardian.com
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included

How does crossposting work on lemmy?

Anyway, “isekai” is now a official part of the Oxford English Dictionary. I actually don’t know if that means that this means that it is now officially part of the Englisch language or not, but I think it’s cool.

But more importantly, “battle shounen” is not in the OED. Which means that isekai is clearly the better genre!

  • NineSwords@ani.socialOPMEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Well, at least you can make fun of them now when they don’t know what that means. It’s worth something…