Requesting a description change for the Anime section

[Farmer Bashy]

No reason to insult yourself. I personnaly watched, if you count the way MAL does, probably over 1000 animes, the definition of an Otaku still doesn't fit me, because watching anime is not the actual meaning. The meaning behind it is to stay home and never leave it. Having no friends and no social life. Anime got stuck with it eventually because of that kind of behavior it generated, but I still won't brand myself an Otaku.



about this


My main language isn't english, so sometime I make this kind of mistakes. Thanks for telling me though, I won't do it again from now on



This is a section about a big part of the Japaneese culture. I understand times have changed, and I am not actually insulted like if someone told it to me in real life, but I'm still not willing to get insulted every time I get in here. Not living in japan isn't an excuse. I don't live in Japan either, but I still wouldn't purposefully get insulted in japaneese. Same with any other language. If i get insulted, I wouldn't go around bragging about how I'm "place chosen insult here".



I searched that up, that's more of a myth. It's actual origins are not exactly determined, but it might be coming from the Norwegian svagga. There was plenty of other theories though, including the one you mentionned.



It doesn't have a second meaning.... Search it up or look it up in a japaneese dictionnary, the definition is pretty clear. Even the urban dictionnary online is pretty clear on that.



Japaneese is exclusively spoken in japan (don't talk about some small village somewhere). There is no second meaning, except the one that ignorant people invent for it.
I am saying ignorant, but I don't mean ignorant completely, I mean unknowledgeable about something. Worst part is ignorants usually PRETEND they know, and thus make up stuff.


-Jawarisin

PS: No clue but I don't think unknowledgeable exist, but you still get the point

I was not saying it has a second meaning per se, I was saying that a new less demeaning meaning has been assigned to the word. Also I thought English was your first language, if I knew it wasn't then I wouldn't have brought it up, for we are all human so we all make mistakes, right.

And you're missing my point, whether or not the slang swag was meant for gays, or it was meant for something else, the word "swag", like "otaku" has also assigned a new meaning, of course, both being unofficial.

I googled the word because I saw that you kept saying "The meaning behind it is to stay home and never leave it. Having no friends and no social life", but I don't see anything about that. I only see what I previous knew about an otaku, that is, a person who has an "obsession" with something (and it just so happens that the word is mostly associated with anime).