Does this sound a little snobbish?

I was on youtube the other day listen to can you feel the love tonight in Japanese, and while it was playing I started to read the comments, and one person asked what Watashi and two other words were, now I though watashi was what females say for I and ore is what males say for I, so I said that, but then this guy came on and said

'i know you're trying to be helpful but you should really check what you're writing is correct before you post it.watashi isn't used just by females its genderless.men and women use it.watashi wa igirisu jin desu is i am english for both sexes.ore is a really rude way to say i and its mostly used by young japanese men cause its seen as cool so i wouldn't recommend using it to the japanese.i studied japanese at uni and learning to be polite is the first thing we're taught.its a big thing in japan.'

Now fair dos I got my info wrong, but I think this person went a little over the top in saying I was wrong and adding s/he learn Japanese in uni came across as kinda snobbish to me, now if they had just said

'Just so you know it's Watashi for both male and female ore is the rude way of saying I' then I wouldn't of made this sarcastic comment

'Well sorry, but I only know bits of japanese, we don't all study it in uni (Saying you do makes you sound like a snob, but I'm not saying you are) So give us who know some japanese but not a lot a break.'

So they said I had taken there comment the wrong way and was getting all worked up over it, now I understand why they said that since it isn't easy picking up sarcastic comments, but the way they had put that I had taken it the wrong way and was getting worked up over it made them seem more snobbish.

Do you think it is a little snobbish or am I just taking it the wrong way?

 

tl;dr .

 

Yeah, they seem pretty rude and snobbish. He's talking about how polite they are, while being completely impolite.

 

Your complaining about one of these youtube smug beggers? The whole site is full of 'em.

 

I'm not complaining, I was just asking for peoples opinion on it.

 

No, not really.

 

You fail fillerz

 

XD

You really got me with that one!

 

Well I was only joking :p

 

What a twist.

 

lol .

 

No.


Jesus christ you can't speak Japanese OR English.

 

Well, actually I don't think it was snobbish, referencing that he/she studies it at University is probably their way of showing that they aren't just making it up and pointing out that they actually did know what they were saying.

Really I kind of agree with them, if you are going to give someone translations etc then you really should check it before you tell them or you might end up making a huge twat of yourself and misinforming a **** load of people.

I think that really you are taking it way too much to heart and took it to be snobbish because you were pissed at being told you were wrong, which fair enough, we are all guilty of doing that at times. Being told we are wrong makes us over-react.

 

^ what she said

To be honest I think that he told you you were wrong was ok, but because he said 'Im studying at university' that kinda took it over the edge. Thats just my opinion though...

 

Yeah I was messing around when I put 'You phail'

 

I'm pretty sure I agree with someone here.