Wandering the graveyard of dead Japanese words - fascinating article about ‘shigo’, Japanese words that have ‘died’.

Some words get worn out, others die young.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260312/p2a/00m/0op/044000c

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Edging Toward Japan: Wandering the graveyard of dead Japanese words - The Mainichi

By Damian Flanagan My eldest daughter has a fondness for learning languages -- French and German -- but her real passion is for what we would call

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8: D.E.B.S.

Welcome to 95% of my sexuality.

Also, the #KimPossible / #Shigo (a.k.a. #kigo) movie we so desperately deserved but Disney would never, ever make.

9: Snatch

A brutal story about brutal people, brutally written and most of all brutally _edited_. See also its companion piece, _Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels_, which honestly I kind of prefer. But they're both great.

Not long after this came out they finally figured out who the serial killer in Vancouver was, and we all learned that "Never trust a man with a pig farm" was far more true than we ever thought.

#10films