I miss InfractionPM

Unless you get a headcount of how many people understand what the word means, you can't state a percentage of people who know what it means.

So don't state that 90% of the readers can't read the post without doing a headcount yourself.

Hell... Even talking to Japanese people, frequenting Japanese websites and even being around a lot of animu freaks, the first time I had ever seen or heard the term was when you said it some months back. I didn't even learn what it meant until about a month ago when I finally decided to look it up. I thought it was some kind of weird animu term that you guys were using, since you guys only used it when posting animu pictures (not like you do that with only animu situations, though).

But we're not talking about random Japanese people, and we're not talking about random thugs you meet on the street. I'm sure if you went to most other forums and started talking about chinchillas and pineapples, nobody would know what the hell you mean, but on Southperry they know. This is strictly about the kind of people that read Southperry. If you don't know what it means then look it up, really.

It's a slang term anyway, so what does it matter? Not even a real word in Japanese. Honestly, if there was a word like "kawaii" or "sugoi" or "unko" dropped into a random English sentence, I'd agree that it's pointless. But this isn't the same case. You don't piss on people for saying they had a case of déjà vu, saying "WELL WHAT IF THERE'S PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?! STOP USING FOREIGN WORDS IN ENGLISH!"

If they don't know what it means, they can look it up. It's hard to find an English equivalent of the word, and much simpler to just keep it as is. Unlike déjà vu, tsundere and most other terms like it will never get officially adopted as an English loan word, so it will certainly never be as well known, but that's not really the fault of the poster. It's up to the reader to broaden their vocabulary a bit if they run across a word they don't understand, not the writer.