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Can I assume that's some soggy toast?
@YLee It wasn't soggy since I ate it quick enough before the whipped butter had much time to seep in ;)
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One thing I discovered on our short trip there last year was their love of soggy toast.
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I read this last year. Extremely interesting...much more modern stuff you will wish you did not know. An excellent read.
@demerara Yeah, I'm finding it fascinating and, yes, a bit disconcerting

@ModernDayBartleby Er, aren't four-letter idioms more a Chinese thing?

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@riley @bookstodon Not sure. Not an expert in this area, but those who know more about Japanese put this book together, so I guess not. (But quite a few of these are referred to as coming from Buddhism.)

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Another popular yojijukugo:

Junin-toiro (十人十色)

Meaning: Different people like different things, everyone has their own ideas and tastes, different strokes for different folks, several men means several minds.

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/weekly-japanese-idiom-junin-toiro-different-strokes-for-different-folks/

#Japanese
#idioms
#yojijukugo

@riley @ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon They're also fairly common in Japanese. Here's a list: https://jisho.org/search/%23words%20%23yoji (Mind you, if you limit this to only common ones by adding #common to the search query, you get 67 back).
#words #yoji - Jisho.org

Japanese dictionary search results for #words #yoji.

@eribosot @riley

This is just a list of some four character words, not necessarily idiomatic #yojijukugo.

"Yojijukugo in the broad sense refers to Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters, which may contain an idiomatic meaning or simply be a compound noun. However, in the narrow or strict sense, the term refers only to four-kanji compounds that have a particular (idiomatic) meaning, which cannot be inferred from the meanings of the components that make them up."

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They're definitely a Japanese 'thing'.

Kengo Kuma : Onomatopoeia Architecture at Athens

I often think about the dialog between the human and the material. Architecture should be placed in this special dialog. But in fact, today’s architecture destroys richness, and the human is left isolated from the earth as the bountiful place where the various materials gather. In this exhibition at the Old State Tobacco Factory in Athens, I would like to show how I create a dialog with materials. I am drawn to the dialog with soft materials: softness always heals me as it reminds me of my mot

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Nice! This makes me think of what skateboarders & traceurs have to teach us about architecture, such as what's discussed by Iain Borden in his classic book - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/skateboarding-and-the-city-9781472583451/
@ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon The only skate-like experience I've got is downhill skiing - that's generally not making much use of urban landscapes, let alone "the city as hardware"... Impressive outline, I shall check it out. Thanks!