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Life Musings 哲学

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Doing in Order to Do
Life Musings 哲学 / Quotes ❞ 名言集

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Japanese as a Second Language 日本語 / Language Learning 言語学習 / linguistics 言語学

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How a Buddhist Death Vase Gave Me Peace
Culture 文化
  • 2020-03-17
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  • 13 min
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Tagged American Culture, アメリカの文化, Buddhist, Buddhist altar, chrysanthemum

How a Buddhist Death Vase Gave Me Peace

Without knowing the heart of the student, the intent of the mother, and only looked at this act through the lens of Japanese culture, the act could be seen as morbid nefarious aggression. I.e., The student wished for my death.

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Homophone Mishappenings
English as a Second Language 英語
  • 2020-03-15
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  • 4 min
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Tagged English as a Second Language, Expat in Japan, homophones, Japanese Culture, Japanese vocabulary

Homophone Mishappenings

I said, “Touch your chin,”and proceeded to place my finger on my mentum, however, toddler Japanese logic mandated not the mentum as modeled, but what he very knew to be his chin.

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Peace is Foreigners Eating Sushi
Life Musings 哲学
  • 2020-03-04
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Tagged American Culture, Christmas, Japanese Culture, Jichan, joy

Peace is Foreigners Eating Sushi

“When foreigners eat sushi, it really is peace, isn’t it.”- Jichan, 92 #sushipeace

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Double Meaning Wacks & Smacks
English Language Arts 英語の国語 / linguistics 言語学
  • 2020-03-03
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Tagged English Language, gardening, lexical ambiguity, Linguistics, pineapples

Double Meaning Wacks & Smacks

“How did you hurt your face?” Asked my concerned coworker. “I hit my car,” was my matter-of-fact reply. Their looks of consternation […]

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Classroom Conversations
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  • 2020-02-20
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Tagged Classroom Conversations, funny, humor, Middle School, middle school humor

Classroom Conversations

Sensei: What is your favorite insect?
Student: My sister.

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Sounds Beautiful
English Language Arts 英語の国語 / linguistics 言語学
  • 2020-02-14
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Tagged beautiful sounding words, beautiful words, cacophony, euphony, Japanese Language

Sounds Beautiful

Isn’t it interesting that humans have feelings about the words that we use to express feeling?! This is property is called Phoneaethetics.

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Motherhood ママのライフ / Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-13
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Tagged Amerasian, Biracial, CaucAsian, Motherhood, poetry

CaucAsian

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The McDonald’s House
Homemaking 家政 / Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-11
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Tagged being grateful, being thankful, Haiku, Macdonald, poetry

The McDonald’s House

A haiku about my unconventionally colored home.

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Motherhood ママのライフ
  • 2020-02-09
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Tagged Butterfly Pea, gardening, herbs, homophones, misunderstanding

Homophone Horrors

Butterfly pea Makes an excellent tea, Unless you are three. Then butterfly pee Sounds rather nasty, And will make you scream, “No, […]

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Unbound by Time or Place
Life Musings 哲学
  • 2020-02-08
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Unbound by Time or Place

The internet is incredible. This tool allows anyone to be unbound by culture or the time they happen to be born in. […]

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