Quote Originally Posted by Shiny View Post
I didn't ignore your post as I agreed with the point you made in it saying how anime is derived from the word animation. And I don't need caps to understand that you basically proved my point. Which is that Japanese=anime and American=cartoons. The Japanese refer to American cartoons as anime, because that is what they call animation there. Americans do not call Japanese animation cartoons here, because most believe that it is a different form of animation all together. Some Japanese and American animation is similar and some isn't.
Except it doesn't prove your point, or at least not what I was responding too. What I was responding to was

'I'll give you that. But, the only thing that defines something as anime is that it comes from Japan.'

Which is simply not the case. Now, for Americans, it is a commonly held assumption that the words have a different meaning, but given that the word is used where it originated to mean animation of any country, and is a derivation of 'animation', period, it's an incorrect one.

Loanwords do not change definitions simply because someone does not understand them.