Wasei Eigo and Gairaigo in Instagram

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Wasei eigo is English vocabulary but made by Japanese. That vocabulary is not understood by English native speaker and only Japanese people could understand that vocabulary. Gairaigo is loaned words from many foreign language and that vocabulary is understood by foreign people and Japanese. In this research, the writers will focus at wasei eigo and gairaigo where the Japanese people was used to their Instagram captions. In this research, there was founded two type of wasei eigo; those are tango (the word) and tanshuukukata (word shortening). There are also two types of gairaigo. Those are replacement and representational. One word is the word (tango) type of the wasei eigo and 4 words are word shortening type of wasei eigo. Around 25 words are representational type of the gairaigo and then one word is replacement type of the gairaigo.