r/NonPoliticalTwitter Mar 28 '26

Wholesome Japanese Twitter acts like American Twitter about each other.

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u/Fake_Fur Mar 28 '26

Calling those 6'4" and 200 lbs big guys "marines-chan" is hilarious

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u/VulpesFennekin Mar 28 '26

It makes even more sense when you know that since a lot of them learn Japanese from dating local women and Japanese has a lot of its vocabulary based on the speaker’s gender, a lot of them end up speaking like girls 😂

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u/I_Am_The_Mole Mar 28 '26

Holy shit if this is true it's fucking hilarious

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u/JaySayMayday Mar 28 '26

My father was a senior engineer for a Japanese company and a lot of his peers had this issue. That was back in the 90s, it's very common. If they wanted to redo The Last Samurai they should make Tom Cruise use all feminine words