Talk:Tekko/@comment-81.15.241.12-20151003140157/@comment-45.35.46.122-20151009182122

yeah, it's generally considered racist to say something in another language is dumb because of how it sounds. I wouldn't say "racist" is precisely the right work, but it's definitely a form of prejudice. it's sort of like saying that people sound dumb when they say "nin hao! nin guixing shi shenme?" despite the fact that it's a legitimate sentence in another language. like how the tekko are named after a similar real-life weapon. if OP understood japanese, he would be free to say something within that language sounds dumb. an english speaker is free to deride english words which they think sound stupid because they have the background to understand it, but should recognize their lack of perspective when it comes to other languages. you wouldn't like some speaker of a foreign language who doesn't speak a word of english to start saying that things named for english words sound retarded, would you?