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Originally Posted by MMM
Depends on what industry you are in...but I cannot think of any industry where one out of five words in any sentence would be in katakana. Please feel free to correct me on that.
Yes, there are many katakana words in Japanese, but not 20% or 10% in any average conversation.
Regardless, this is not what the OP is talking about.
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I think putting it in terms of "one out of every 5 words in every sentence" is a little too simplistic. I am talking about the modern language usage in all its facets as a whole. Perhaps 20% is an overestimate, but saying borrowed words only comprise 2% of everyday modern Japanese as a whole is certainly an underestimate. In any case, the fact is one cannot live a single day of their life in Japan without being bombarded with a significant number of borrowed words. My point here I guess is that gairaigo/wasei-eigo is a big part of the Japanese language, and that it can somewhat be related to people adopting words from the language they are learning into their own speech.
Anyhow, I will agree that this is somewhat off topic.