Does this mean I was writing in my journal more, or was the notebook I used as a journal merely slimmer than previous volumes? We’ll never know! (Because I’m not going to go through and do a page count. I don’t have time for that.) ...
I remember telling myself in Japanese “Miss wa Mushi”. Miss = mistakes and Mushi = ignore. The short phrase has so much power. It kind of sort of rhymes in Japanese. It instantly calms me. I wish I could find similar word in English too. Pianoforperformance,Good for y...
When you find the workplace in a story, the boss is mean or the characters are depressed or someone has cheated another out of something they deserve. Business and greed are a good pairing, but I would like to see stories with less suffering. I just got done reading Five Star ...
Japanese say things in daily conversations literally. You know the game musical chairs this is a good example because Japanese play musical chairs too, but it's called "いすとりゲーム" (isutori-ge--mu) which mean "chair take game" in literal Japanese. In literal English it means "to t...
As an example of one variant of this, we have the Japanese “mushi-ken” which instead of using Rock, Paper, and Scissors, used hand gestures representing a frog, a slug, and a snake. The specific gestures were the thumb as the frog, which defeats the slug. The slug is represented by...
The greeting “moshi moshi” (もしもし) doesnotactually mean “hello.” This expression is thought to be derived from the verb申す (もうす)which means “to speak.” So the term “moshi moshi” can be translated as “I’m going to speak now.“ ...
Learn how to say hello on the telephone in Japanese (more than just moshi moshi), the history of the phrase, and how to avoid evil fox magic.