Matt Alt

Matt Alt

7 авг., 04:57

Matt Alt

7 авг., 04:55

Totally!

Matt Alt

5 авг., 15:08

Short answer: it’s an old-fashioned way of calling it and I’m old. Longer “no-prize” answer: there are Ginza shopping arcades all over Japan so the “the” refers to the original one in Chuo-ku.

Matt Alt

2 авг., 02:30

(and thanks for reading!)

Matt Alt

2 авг., 02:27

Yeah, blew my mind too. What a random connection!

Matt Alt

24 июл., 08:44

Good one. Cruel fate, cruel world, cruel irony, etc. are interesting examples. But I think they actually are portraying agency, through poetically anthropomorphizing the situations.

Matt Alt

24 июл., 07:34

My vote is for “atrociously sultry day”

Matt Alt

24 июл., 07:30

It kind of reminds me of the hype over “murder hornets,” which was a mis(re)translation of satsujin-bachi, itself a mistranslation of “killer bee.” www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Do “Murder Hornets” Really Exist?The answer hinges on a peculiarity of the Japanese language.www.newyorker.com

Matt Alt

24 июл., 07:28

Agreed on the song, but no, no agency implied by the original term in this context. Just the excessiveness.

Matt Alt

15 июл., 01:19

Japan isn’t mentioned in Mattel’s book “The Story of Barbie and the Woman That Created Her,” either. Even as collectors/insiders, I think you’ll be interested in the essay; it’s based on the never-translated memoir of Fumiko Miyatsuka, the seamstress who made Barbie’s first wardrobe (and Licca’s!)