A Cool Dude@lemmy.mlM to Comics@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoHow the Japanese look at the US — comic in recent Tokyo newspaper.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1326arrow-down110
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months agoTo me, the least accurate part is picking baseball to represent the right. I would’ve gone with wrestling, NASCAR, or maybe even football. (I know the Japanese play baseball themselves… maybe it has a right-wing connotation there that’s influencing the choice?)
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoOne of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It’s 野球 yakyuu (“field ball”) btw
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months ago棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means “stick/bat ball”, but also maybe “awesome ball”.
To me, the least accurate part is picking baseball to represent the right. I would’ve gone with wrestling, NASCAR, or maybe even football.
(I know the Japanese play baseball themselves… maybe it has a right-wing connotation there that’s influencing the choice?)
Yeah that was a bit weird.
One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It’s 野球 yakyuu (“field ball”) btw
棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means “stick/bat ball”, but also maybe “awesome ball”.
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