Came to say the same thing. The supposed backwards parts are seeming charming the longer I live in Canada.
Having a sovereign language has allowed it to avoid so much brainrot in our culture today.
Having a sovereign language has allowed it to avoid so much brainrot in our culture today.
それは、翻訳行為が高価である限りにおいてのみ機能します。
(That 'free' is also 'mediocre quality' does not help when the problem is 'brain rot': viral memes still be viral)
Not that your point isn't actually a good one - we do now often see the worst of US-made culture war toxoplasma (in all stages of its lifecycle) being imported wholesale into European cultures where it is barely relevant to local circumstances, which I would squarely blame on sufficient English skills and superior production value of anglophone politics.
I kinda assumed so — I kept changing the English until the English-Japanese-English round trip translation wasn't wildly wrong, but the fact I had to says how far Google Translate has to go before it's actually good.