Quote Originally Posted by Mikita View Post
One day a Japanese friend was shouting for a party and included "JP Only" in the shout.

I know he is not a racist person, so I asked him why he said "JP Only".

He said he meant that he could only communicate in Japanese.

I asked him if he knew many English speakers feel it is discrimination and get upset when they see that.

He was shocked and felt ashamed.

He said would actually like an opportunity to play with English speaking players, but he could not communicate in English and he did not want to cause problems because he could not use the language.


This will not explain all situations of JP Only, but this is one side of the story.
I think this is the case most of the time actually. If I had a time for every time a word looked like something in English but meant something different in Japanese...