Do you think using original Japanese words is out of date?


The more I learn Japanese, the more I think Japanese is a subtype of English,
now every Japanese Word are replaced by English words, some words I learned
from textbook seems out of date.

For example, I learn wage in Japanese is 給料, but now nobody use this word.
Instead, they use サラリー(salary).  
Red is 赤い in textbook, but now everybody use レッド（red). 赤い seems totally out of
date.

So what is the meaning of learning original Japanese words If you can just
katakanaize English words and use Japanese Grammar to put them together?

I can't understand why Japanese use English words to replace every word that
already exists in Japanese.

You already have 赤い, why use レッド？




For this subjective yet relatable question, you chose bad examples - so bad
that people are now nitpicking on them rather then the main point. Perhaps
this could've been avoided by using examples like "sweets" and "お菓子" or
whatnot.

Your examples are still not wrong:

Go to a Toyota dealer and ask for your car to be painted 赤い色. They will
correct you with a straight face: "You mean センシュアルレッドマイカ?". This example is
caused by marketing and sales obviously.

Recently, human resource vendors use the word "レート" when they could've simply
used "時給". This is because the Japanese are extra sensitive when it comes to
wages, and they would rather use this term to feel comfortable for themselves.

However, the **opposite** phenomenon also occurs. Some group of people would
say, for example, "隣国の飛翔体" when they could've just said the name of that
country and "missile". They have their own good or bad reasons to over
complicate things and create reports that look like Chinese documentation.

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I've seen many Japanese complain about what you just said. I could say such
diversity and acceptance of foreign words are the beauty of Japan, but that
would be a lie because this isn't a Japanese specific thing. If you look at
India, not only English words but the entire English language is being used
everywhere. Treat this as a loss of culture or evolution of diversity - it's
all about perspective.

From my experience, the marketing team and consultants tends to come up with
fancy Katakana jargon, especially for a product's color options as you pointed
out. Without any rationale or source to back this up, I assume one of the main
reason is due to corporations trying to sound catchy to comply to their
コーポレート部門が掲げるリーダーシップのビジョン及びポリシー.

