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> Exciting Boring Ha, thanks for sharing, that is amusing! On the one hand it seems like it almost could be the way people humorously transcribe Japanese acce
by canoebuilder 4y ago
> Exciting Boring
Ha, thanks for sharing, that is amusing!
On the one hand it seems like it almost could be the way people humorously transcribe Japanese accented English, of “Exciting Bowling,” and on the other hand in a purely English context that really does strike me as a quite good description of bowling when you think about it.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoI dunno I actually really like bowling and never thought it was boring but in Japan it was like the holes were too small for my fat fingers or something. ボウリング - bōringu, this is the word they have for it, so yeah
- canoebuilder 4y agoYeah I have that issue even not in Japan of having to search and search to find a ball I feel like my fingers won’t get stuck in. I didn’t mean to disparage, the exciting half carried equal weight in my mind, just something about maybe the environment, the wooden floor, the shoes, the overall aesthetic, waiting your turn in a group, punctuated by the anticipatory excitement of watching your ball travel down the lane gave me this feeling of like the type of balance common in Eastern spiritual traditions or Schrödinger’s cat, where it is boring and exciting at the same time.
- ben7799 4y agoThis actually does make sense with the traditional difficulty of the L sounds for Japanese speakers due to the way L and R are kind of merged into one sound in Japanese. My father went to Japan a lot in the 80s and always remarked at how the L in our last name got pronounced as an R in Japan making the name sound totally different. Exciting Bowling would easily get pronounced as Exciting Boring and then someone could have had a laugh and come up with the name.