I feel sorry for making you type something longer than an average entry (i too tend to do that from time to time) , but i kind of neglected the difficulties on evaluating the actual proportion of the group defined. I agree that it may depend on the group/fandom but that also means some persons have started typing like that within that community. And there are those people that write fangirl in their own journal, so i think individuality has a say in this too, not just the brainwashing that takes place by others.
A confession: when i FIRST discovered anime and it was still a mainly secluded online thing in my country and bittorrent was non-existent, i made myself guilty of typing japanese expressions in my conversations such as ja mata ne, or arara *_* THAT sorta stuff that noone i knew did back when i was 14, nothing really annoying though. I didn't even have a real fandom back then, it was just out of love for the language and probably made me look weird too. Anyway i quit that habit partially when i noticed signs of the anime/japan craze around me growing (like people pasting j-rock quotes on their sites and all) which made me feel embarrassed about what i had been doing so far even though i knew the language better than them.
This is a more empiric reason why i feel that, when people online, under whatever fandom it may be, make ridiculous use of japanese, they're too ignorant towards their own silliness and thus they should be defined as FANGIRL JAPANESE to simplify things. In that case 25% or higher could be a very realistic number indeed ^_^;
ohhh i'm talkative today it seems
A confession: when i FIRST discovered anime and it was still a mainly secluded online thing in my country and bittorrent was non-existent, i made myself guilty of typing japanese expressions in my conversations such as ja mata ne, or arara *_* THAT sorta stuff that noone i knew did back when i was 14, nothing really annoying though. I didn't even have a real fandom back then, it was just out of love for the language and probably made me look weird too. Anyway i quit that habit partially when i noticed signs of the anime/japan craze around me growing (like people pasting j-rock quotes on their sites and all) which made me feel embarrassed about what i had been doing so far even though i knew the language better than them.
This is a more empiric reason why i feel that, when people online, under whatever fandom it may be, make ridiculous use of japanese, they're too ignorant towards their own silliness and thus they should be defined as FANGIRL JAPANESE to simplify things. In that case 25% or higher could be a very realistic number indeed ^_^;