新奇事件簿 日本NHK因英文遭起訴

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A Japanese man is angry with Japan's television company NHK. He is tired of hearing so many English words on TV. Mr Hoji Takahashi, 71, says he is stressed every time he hears an English loanword on NHK. He is taking NHK to court. He wants the TV company to pay him 1.4 million yen ($14,300) for his "mental distress". Mr Takahashi's lawyer told the AFP news agency that Japanese TV is too "Americanised". Takahashi doesn't understand why NHK uses words borrowed from English instead of Japanese words. He said NHK should use Japanese and not loanwords for vocabulary such as "toraburu" (trouble), "risuku" (risk) and "shisutemu" (system). He said this would help protect Japanese culture.

一名日本男子對日本電視公司（日本廣播協(xié)會）憤憤不已。電視上過多的英文單詞使他感到不耐煩?，F(xiàn)年71歲的高橋鵬二稱，每次在日本廣播協(xié)會上聽到英語外來詞都會讓他倍感壓力。隨之，他將日本廣播協(xié)會告上了法庭。他希望協(xié)會能夠賠償他140萬日元精神損失費。高橋鵬二的律師對法新社稱，日本電視太過于“美國化”。讓高橋鵬二不解的是，為什么使用大量英文而不是日文。他稱日本廣播協(xié)會應(yīng)該使用一些能夠代表“toraburu”（麻煩），“risuku”（風(fēng)險）以及“shisutemu”（系統(tǒng)）等日語詞匯，而不是外來語。他稱這么做將有助于保護日本文化。

Mr Takahashi started a small group called "The Treat Japanese as Important Association". He started it after he wrote to NHK but got no reply. He said NHK does not care about his opinions. Takahashi said older Japanese people often have problems with the many loanwords on NHK. He said they have trouble understanding what announcers on NHK say. He told reporters: "Young people can probably understand a lot of this stuff, but for older people like myself, I don't know what it means." The Japanese language has thousands of words borrowed from English and other languages. It uses a special alphabet called katakana to write them. It also changes the pronunciation to fit with Japanese phonics.

高橋鵬二發(fā)起了一個名叫“重視日語”的小團體。該組織是在他向日本廣播協(xié)會寫信之后成立的，但是并沒有收到回應(yīng)。他認為日本廣播協(xié)會并不重視他的意見。高橋鵬二稱許多老年人經(jīng)常會對電視上的外來語感到困惑。他認為他們聽不懂電視播音員的話。他對記者說：“年輕人或許會明白，但是對于像我這樣的老年人，我不知道它是什么意思。”日語中有上千個英語和其他語種的外來詞。日語會用片假名來書寫。這些外來語也會為了與日語的聲學(xué)相配來變化發(fā)音。