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Japanese topsy-turvy words
Topsy-turvy… Yeah. Sounds dumb. IDK maybe there’s proper term for this. What I
mean is a pair of words consisting of the same 2 kanji (with the same
readings, mostly), only in a different order, like this:日本 「にほん」 Japan
本日 「ほんじつ」 today花火 「はなび」 fireworks
火花 「ひばな」 spark一万 「いちまん」 ten thousands
万一 「まんいち」 unlikely event, one in 10.000 chance会社 「かいしゃ」 company
社会 「しゃかい」 society女子 「じょし」 girl
子女 「しじょ」 sons and daughters父親 「ちちおや」 father
親父 「おやじ」 one’s father, old man途中 「とちゅう」 on the way, midway
中途 「ちゅうと」 in the middle, half-way階段 「かいだん」 stairs
段階 「だんかい」 level, phase会議 「かいぎ」 conference, meeting
議会 「ぎかい」 congress, parliament現実 「げんじつ」 reality, true fact
実現 「じつげん」 realization, materialization海上 「かいじょう」 marine, by/at/on sea
上海 「しゃんはい」 Shanghai苦痛 「くつう」 pain, agony
痛苦「つうく」 anguish関連 「かんれん」 relation,
relevance連関 「れんかん」 relation,
linkage
形象 「けいしょう」 shape, figure
象形 「しょうけい」 hieroglyphicsI really, really love this post concept, so I thought I’d add a few entries.
日中「にっちゅう or ひなか」 sino-japanaese (only 1st reading), middle of the day
中日 「ちゅうにち」China and Japan
温室「おんしつ」 greenhouse
室温「しつおん」room temperature
内室「ないしつ」indoors
室内「しつない」one’s wife
奥山「おくやま」remote mountain, mountain recesses
山奥「やまおく」deep in the mountains, mountain recesses (these two are pretty similar, actually)
土塊「どかい」clump of soil/earth, clod
塊土「かいど」lump of earth
保安「ほあん」peace preservation, security (if read ほうあん can refer to the Houan era)
安保「あんぽ」US-Japan Security Treaty
白黒「しろくろ」monochrome, black-and-white
黒白「くろしろ」black and white, right and wrong
画面「がめん」screen, scene
面画「めんが」surface-drawing
my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”
i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.
the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:
稽首天中天,
毫光照大千,
八風吹不動,
端坐紫金蓮
(Humbly bowed my head below all skies
Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds
Immovable by strong winds from eight sides
Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.
(here’s a chinese source for the skeptics)
can you imagine having your brutal murder described in detail to future generations
this is my new favourite story from history
Just an addition: “fart” also is slang for “bullshit” in Chinese, so his friend was basically writing “BS” on the dude’s ego poem
More sketchbook colors!! I’m pulling my old oc Fish out of the garbage (not to be confused with Jac who used to go by Fish) and now he’s a creepy angel that can turn into a massive leviathan.
HELLO!! I’ve made a cassowary gryphon beastie, available as an adoptable!! It is $35, if you are interested message me here! Thank you!!
Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind In Your Mind
Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind In Your Mind
Stumbled over this post today and I thought it was a pretty interesting and well-written piece about what its like to have (be) a brain that works very differently from mine.
i half-wondered going into this if it would describe my experience but I’m more like. legally blind in my mind. I can see fuzzy colors and the impressions of faces and bodies, and if I move the “camera” real close I can see some detail, but never really the whole picture.
Ilustraciones un tanto realistas de los personajes.
MMM debo confesar que no me gusta mucho Katara : /
Pero Sokka uff ??
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Azula mi Reina ❤?
❌ Praise
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What just happened here.
@guildwars2, PUT THE TABLE BACK. What will we put our stuff on.