[General] Hog Liniment & Neutering Someboy

[Tarheel]

I think we tend to avoid jokes that involve sexual organs or something that alludes to them on TV shows. The idea of a doctor getting drunk and trying to neuter his human patients is, I think, a bit too crass for most [STRIKE]of the[/STRIKE] Japanese people.

Jokes often don't travel well across cultures.

 

[Tdol]

I find this use of “person” rather interesting. I was referring to myself, so I thought it was OK to use “a Japanese” instead of “a Japanese person.”

This usage would have sounded strange to me before I lived in Asia, but now a Japanese sounds normal. I think we may be able to look at this as OK in international English, with some pushback from regional variants that think it sounds a bit insensitive.