Yeah, it does seem strange that they use English in the media to be cool but don't realize (or maybe care) that they are often using the wrong words and embarrassing themselves.

The whole "gurupu" (group) and "memba" (member) thing has been driving me nuts!!

Sometimes it is used correctly but it is OVERUSED!

Sports team "memba" .. really??
When we would usually say "player" Japanese insist on referring to team "memba".

TV shows with the obligatory 20-30 "talent" refer to those people as "memba".

It obviously appeals to the Japanese sense of membership of groups of all descriptions.

And what is what TV "C.M"s (commercials) constantly referring to "campaigns".
The only country I know where the damn companies constantly tell us we are listening to the details of their latest "campaign".

One more: "smart" when they use it to mean "slim".
God knows where they got that one from!!

think I need some quiet time...

Stuff is whack. The whole peppering Japanese with English I think could throw off people learning Japanese like me. Say... I hear a few words I recognize and a few I don't, using context clues, normally, I would learn more but, throw in a wild card English word that isn't used correctly, there goes my context and opportunity to learn, right? Though, surely that isn't important to them.

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Japanese mixing English into their songs, esp. in anime, kind of screws it up for me. I don't watch anime intros, subbed anime (sometimes), or Japanese songs (sparingly as that is) to hear English! I wanna hear the ORIGINAL language. Japanese singers especially need to quit acting like English is SOO cool. It's just another language that happens to be the lingua franca (if that's the correct term) in the current era.

On the flip side, some English in Japanese, like on signs, can be quite helpful to a non-speaker like me.