Timeline for Was the word that is now considered a slur against Japanese people ever considered simply a standard, neutral demonym?
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:27 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | They should not have got away with it anywhere. It's a disgrace, and many Brits don't like Peter Kay. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:19 | comment | added | Davislor | @MichaelHarvey I haven’t lived in Britain, but I’m pretty sure they could not have gotten away with that on broadcast TV in the US. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:16 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Amazingly to me, it actually formed part of a joke in Season 2, episode 4 of a BBC comedy series in 2002 "Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights", in which a bar holds a competition sponsored by a fictional Japanese beer company, and the bar owner, Peter Kay, says at the competition award ceremony that the quality of the entries should "bring a tear to a Jap's eye". | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:06 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:02 | comment | added | Davislor | @MichaelHarvey I did not know that. It’s definitely not an example of neutral pre-war usage, though. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 19:01 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | In Britain, the opening of the male urethra in the head of the penis is sometimes called the 'Jap's eye' by vulgar people. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:52 | comment | added | Davislor | @GEdgar I found an example from 1920. Thanks! | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:52 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:42 | comment | added | Davislor | @GEdgar Interesting. The Internet Archive has other Montgomery Ward catalogs, but not that one. Without context, I’m not sure whether it’s just an abbreviation to save space. It doesn’t sound like a demonym, though. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 18:30 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 15:24 | comment | added | GEdgar | There is an example from the Mongomery-Ward Catalog 1898, where "Jap silk" is in a clothing description. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 8:54 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 8:47 | history | answered | Davislor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |