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12-29-2009, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jasonchua View Post
good luck with your manga
Raises a very good point: What is "manga" as used in the English language? Can something in English written by someone who can't speak Japanese qualify as manga?

If someone calling it "manga" makes it manga, can I paint a cubist painting and call it romanticism or post-modernism?

It raises linguistic quandries that expose me as something of a descriptivist and something of a prescriptivist!
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