Resolved What's "Engrish"?

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  1. LiLi041

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    What's "Engrish"? I've seen some recruitment posts use it, but I'm not really sure what it means...

    Does it have anything to do with "Chinglish" (I know what this means)? Or... ?
     
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    lol it's similar. Engrish is normally used when someone mixes in kr with their english (like koreaboos do lol).

    eg: juiceyo/juseyo/주세요

    See Also: Kongrish


    edit: i was wrong QAQ see right explanations below
     
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    I believe it refers to the broken English that non native speakers use. Note that Japanese have a hard time with the letter 'L" hence the name.
     
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    uh... it could be... but its more well known for Japanese English = Engrish.

    Cause of the R and L stuff.

    On Korea, I don't think I've ever seen or heard any Koreans ever say English as Engrish.
     
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    Have you ever heard English in an anime? The absolute abomination that is so bad its good. That's Engrish.
     
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    my common sense logged off. I just realized after hitting send post QAQ
     
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    ooganda english....thats engris
     
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    What interesting about it is that some kids in my country have a hard time with the letter "R" and spell it with the letter "L" instead. So it's kind of weird when the first time that I heard Japanese having it hard with letter "L"
     
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    Pretty sure they’re English loanwords. English words rewritten phonetically using the korean alphabet so they sound as similar as possible.

    https://blogs.transparent.com/korean/loanwords-in-the-korean-language/

    pizza in korean is pi-ja. There is no other way to say pizza.
     
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    Okay, I see now~ Thank you to everyone who replied!

    Marking as resolved now~ *ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚
     
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    They have a hard time the Allies used friend or foe passwords (in the scenario where two forces meet but that don't know if the speaker is ally and visual confirmation is either impossible or inconclusive or ill advised) have r and such like Tree back in the eastern front of world war 2 .
     
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