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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1806793" data-attributes="member: 8461">I suppose common misunderstanding can be a selling tactic. Because, remember, there is definately such a thing as being TOO smart or culturally-informed.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> It is hardly appropriate, because it causes confusion for people who want to learn more about it. People who want to understand and learn more about manga than just casual browsing will eventually hit upon that the term is being used differently in different situations, causing confusion that could otherwise be avoided if we decided to be a tad more culturally literate instead of arbitrarily deciding we had the right answer because it was close enough. Is this a major problem? No. Is it a pervasive one? No. But it's another barrier between cross-cultural communication that could otherwise be avoided. This Warcraft comic is no more a manga than Megatokyo is (and the latter also worms its way into the "manga" section of stores).To reiterate, bastardizing a term for the sake of convenience is NEVER appropriate. It's surprising to see someone who plays D&D say that the most common misconception is good enough - hasn't our favorite game struggled for years to get away from that very notion?You don't need to be fluent; just remember that, as a rule, the English dub is never as good as the original Japanese.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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