• raman_klogius@ani.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    JS in Japan can mean elementary schoolgirls.

    But I swear Google used to be smarter than this. It’s the training data from 4chan that poisoned its understanding of the world, surely.

    • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      How’d they get JS from shougakusei? Or wait, is that like “junior school” or something, to obscure its meaning further?

      • raman_klogius@ani.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        The abbreviation takes the form of XY where X is:

        • D for danshi/男子 (boys) or
        • J for joshi/女子 (girls)

        And Y is:

        • S for shougakusei/小学生 (elementary schooler) or
        • C for chuugakusei/中学生 (middle schooler) or
        • K for koukousei/高校生 (high schooler)