The Best Japanese Words Ever – Part 6

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The Best Japanese Words Ever – Part 6

It’s time for 6-8 more illustrious Japanese terms. After a couple straightforward ones, it’s a hodgepodge of headscratchers and homonyms, with a couple venereal disease terms mixed in to make this a very special STD edition!

1) 歯垢 (shikoh) = teeth dirt = plaque.

Nice and simple, telling it like it is. That’s exactly why I love you, Japanese. When coming across the word “plaque” in English for the first time, there’s no normal human

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Notes to Willy; (a.k.a Hamlet is Overrated, Illogical, and All Around Sucky)

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Notes to Willy; (a.k.a Hamlet is Overrated, Illogical, and All Around Sucky)

I finally read Hamlet (the CliffsComplete version with explanations and commentary of course), and given its reputation and the fact that it has been produced in something like 700 different countries and 48,000 different languages, I was shocked by how not-good it is.

If Shakespeare was an unknown entity and he sent the manuscript to a developmental editor today, this is the feedback he would receive:

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