>>282929075
the japanese usually reduplicate words to make them plural (also sometimes the pronunciation of the second reduplication changes because of a linguistic thing called "rendaku" but just ignore that for now)
person 人 hito becomes people 人人 hitobito
mountains 山 yama becomes many mountains 山山 yamayama
day 日 hi becomes days/everyday 日日 hibi
god 神 kami becomes gods 神神 kamigami
so actually, if we wanna be real here, アニメ anime should be アニメアニメ animeanime
>>282931887
yes, the japanese are taught a lot of incorrect things about english because all their english teachers are japanese people who spent a few years learning english in college and never actually spoke to a native english speaker once in their lives. I met a guy who incorrectly called everyone else "you" instead of "he" or "she" because that's what he was taught in school. Or should I say, "that's what you was taught in school"
>>282931936
A native english speaker doesn't inherently understand how to make irregular plurals, you have to teach a child how to pluralize mouse into mice otherwise they'll start saying mouses. In the same way, you have to educate people how to pluralize anime and other foreign words. One Samurai becomes Seven Samurai, one Katana becomes three Katana, one Ninja becomes many Ninja (ignore the video game Mini Ninjas, lmao)
>>282932167
it's more of a case by case basis, here we call the Navajo people the Navajo, but we also call the Aztec people the Aztecs.
Italian food is particularly funny because "panini" is already the plural form of panino. Also singular Salame isn't used in favor of the plural Salami, of which we in english use "Salami" for both the singular and plural.
Actually, English is fun in that you can pluralize a counter instead of the actual word, so you'd probably say something like "3 blocks of salami please" as opposed to "3 apples please" or you can say "let's watch 2 seasons of anime" instead "let's watch 2 movies"
