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If you feel bad, if things are going wrong in the world, be positive and try to be as happy as possible, leaving aside all the negative things. Overcome negativity, go beyond the woes of the world, all wars, the starving children and all the bad things. Assemble yourselves, hold your hand, raise your hands to heaven and pass it all.
Baka. (Japanese word) Baka ( 馬鹿, ばか in hiragana, or バカ in katakana) means "fool", or (as an adjectival noun) "foolish" and is the most frequently used pejorative term in the Japanese language. [ 1] The word baka has a long history, an uncertain etymology (possibly from Sanskrit or Classical Chinese ), and sociolinguistic complexities.
The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け/ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", resulting in boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality".This is derived as a noun form of the verb bokeru, which is written in several ways, [7] with additional meanings and nuances: 暈ける refers to being blurry, hazy or out-of-focus, whereas the 惚ける and 呆ける spellings refer to being mentally ...
Image credits: Cosimia1964 #2. My mom was dying. A friend told me "you have your whole life to freak out about this-- *don't do it in front of her.* "It really helped me to understand that my ...
Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...
and. tatemae. In Japan, honne and tatemae are Japanese terms relating to a person's feelings and outward behaviors. [ 1] Honne refers to a person's true feelings and desires ( 本音, hon'ne, "true sound"), and tatemae refers contrastingly to the behavior and opinions one displays in public ( 建前, tatemae, "built in front", "façade").
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
The sound-symbolic words of Japanese can be classified into four main categories: [ 4][ 5] words that mimic sounds made by living things, like a dog's bark ( wan-wan ). words that mimic sounds made by inanimate objects, like wind blowing or rain falling ( zā-zā ). words that depict states, conditions, or manners of the external world (non ...