Breaking at the Waist
Consider the following expression:
話の腰を折る (はなしのこしをおる: to interrupt someone's conversation)
You likely know 話 as "talk," 腰 as "waist," and 折る as "to break" or "to fold," as in 折り紙 (おりがみ: origami). How could these three kanji add up to mean "to interrupt one’s conversation"? It's possible...
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Whether you awaken from sleep, awaken to reality, or wake up your pineal gland, 醒 is your kanji! It...In the Beginning
In the beginning you were an egg. Well, anatomically, that's not quite right. You were an egg plus a sperm (if I may speak in such a familiar way about something going on inside your mother). But in the beginning of your professional life, you were just an egg. That's what I learned from this book cover, included in the forthcoming essay 2041 on 醒 (to...
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I'm in revision mode! Since yesterday I've posted six more essay revisions:
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