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I guess Liancourt Rocks is a fair compromise, but wouldn't it be nice if the governments of Japan and South Korea could settle on 独竹島／獨竹島 one day¹? Literally,
by Freak_NL 7y ago
I guess Liancourt Rocks is a fair compromise, but wouldn't it be nice if the governments of Japan and South Korea could settle on 独竹島／獨竹島 one day¹?
Literally, lonely bamboo island (どくちくしま・독죽도²). I wonder if I'm the first one to come up with this portmanteau?
1: Not any time soon, obviously.
2: Probably. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- hombre_fatal 7y agofwiw, while the superscript ¹ and ² are cute, I had to scour your two sentences to find them because they just look like specks on the monitor or ligatures or part of the content. Like the " in ど or a single quotation mark'. Would be hell if you used it on a longer comment.
- Freak_NL 7y agoThat would be a fault with HN's minimal CSS style I'm afraid. I have HN zoomed in at 160% in the browser because of the small font-size — it solves most legibility problems.