Jenglish

Etymology

 * compare Singlish, Yinglish, etc.

Noun

 * 1) Japanese-influenced English, especially when nonstandard or ungrammatical.
 * 2) * 1997, James W. Rinehart, Christopher Huxley & David Robertson, Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents
 * That this company is half Japanese-owned is obvious. Japanese words spelled out in English (what someone referred to as “Jenglish”) are used and posted throughout the plant.
 * 1) * 1998, Robert Brenner & Gregory Capelo, VCR Troubleshooting & Repair
 * Since many VCRs are designed and built in Japan, a mixture of Japanese-to-English writing style sometimes called “Japanenglish” or “Jenglish” is often found in much documentation. This makes some of the expressions difficult to understand.
 * 1) * 1999, Dan in Japan: jenglish (website)
 * What is Jenglish (pronounced jing-lish)? It's all of the funny English in Japan that you see on signs, books, T-shirts, vending machines... it's everywhere. ... it doesn't quite have that "native English speaker" nuance.
 * 1) * 2001, Nancy Brown Diggs, Looking Beyond the Mask: When American Women Marry Japanese Men
 * She also thinks that “being so close to the culture has ruined my English. I have had to choose easier words, shorter sentences, ... We call it ‘Jinglish,’ Japanese-English.”

Synonyms

 * Janglish