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I've imported the list to Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/js2/list/akira-kurosawas-100-favorite-movies/detail/ https://letterboxd.com/js2/list/akira-kurosaw

by js2 6y ago

I've imported the list to Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/js2/list/akira-kurosawas-100-favorite-movies/detail/ https://letterboxd.com/js2/list/akira-kurosawas-100-favorite... One curiosity: Aoi sanmyaku (青い山脈) is apparently "The Blue Mountains", but OC translated it as "The Green Mountains." (Also, it's two parts, so I added both to the Letterboxd list, similar to Ivan the Terrible, which is why there's 102 entries.)

scienceman 6y ago
Fun fact: 青い (ah-oi) means both green and blue in Japanese. There is a more specific word for green 緑 (midori) but 青い is still commonly used to mean green. For instance, "green light" (as in a stop light) is 青信号 (ah-oh shingou) where 信号 means signal.
- lovemenot 6y ago
  This (lack of) B-G distinction also occurs in many languages other than Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distincti...
azernik 6y ago
"Green" is a reasonable translation - the same word is used for the "green" of plants or traffic lights. When referring to a mountain it is very likely to be referring to its greenery. The boundaries between named colors have historically varied wildly between languages.
- fireattack 6y ago
  When paired with mountain, I'd say blue is more accurate. 青山 is a fixed term (not quite "idiom" but you get the idea) originated from Chinese.
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  - azernik 6y ago
    A fixed term which refers to the lushness and vegetation on a mountain. These are the precise denotations where the word is equivalent to English with "green". And after a quick search, jisho.org translates that precise set phrase as "lush mountain; green mountain", though with an interesting alternate "burial place" meaning. https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1 https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1 And a couple of minutes later another quick search gives me a Wiktionary translation of the Chinese phrase as "green mountains; mountains with lush forests" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1
    - fireattack 6y ago
      You are absolutely right, I meant to say "green" and reply to your parent. I'm embarrassed..

by js2 6y ago

scienceman 6y ago

Fun fact: 青い (ah-oi) means both green and blue in Japanese. There is a more specific word for green 緑 (midori) but 青い is still commonly used to mean green. For instance, "green light" (as in a stop light) is 青信号 (ah-oh shingou) where 信号 means signal.

lovemenot 6y ago
This (lack of) B-G distinction also occurs in many languages other than Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distincti...

azernik 6y ago

"Green" is a reasonable translation - the same word is used for the "green" of plants or traffic lights. When referring to a mountain it is very likely to be referring to its greenery. The boundaries between named colors have historically varied wildly between languages.

fireattack 6y ago
When paired with mountain, I'd say blue is more accurate. 青山 is a fixed term (not quite "idiom" but you get the idea) originated from Chinese.
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- azernik 6y ago
  A fixed term which refers to the lushness and vegetation on a mountain. These are the precise denotations where the word is equivalent to English with "green". And after a quick search, jisho.org translates that precise set phrase as "lush mountain; green mountain", though with an interesting alternate "burial place" meaning. https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1 https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1 And a couple of minutes later another quick search gives me a Wiktionary translation of the Chinese phrase as "green mountains; mountains with lush forests" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1
  - fireattack 6y ago
    You are absolutely right, I meant to say "green" and reply to your parent. I'm embarrassed..