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There's an interesting, vaguely related family of terms derived from ゲバルト, from Ger. Gewalt "violence", that all refer to 60s-era student political movements an
by fenomas 3y ago
There's an interesting, vaguely related family of terms derived from ゲバルト, from Ger. Gewalt "violence", that all refer to 60s-era student political movements and protests.
For example ゲバヘル, protective helmets students wore during protests, and even ゲバ字 "violence characters" - referring to an angular form of writing used on protest fliers and signs, meant to prevent authorities from identifying the author by their handwriting.
Example of such characters: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NAVI_hansen_shukai.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NAVI_hansen_shukai.j...
- jansan 3y agoThose gebaji (ゲバ字) are really interesting stuff, would deserve their own discussion on HN.