Japlishn.
/ˈdʒaplɪʃ/ 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 attributive or adj.
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Japlish1960
1960 N.Y. Times 25 Dec. 3/5 (caption) New traffic instructions, written in ‘Japlish’, cause linguistic bewilderment.
1963 Harper'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.
1966 Time 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.
1970 Times 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.
1970 Bull. Inst. Res. Lang. Teaching (Tokyo) 293 13 There are, moreover, hosts of ‘Japlish’..words and expressions, such as ‘old miss’..(meaning ‘old maid’ or ‘spinster’).
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