Comments on: Cool Kanji – 橙 http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/ How to "Get Used to" Japanese Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:59:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: MS http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-179 Fri, 29 May 2009 00:58:08 +0100 http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-179 I googled 1Q84 and came here. I won't check your blog back for a while to avoid any spoiler. By the way, 橙 is still read as 'だいだい' by Japanese natives including me. There might be a situation somebody put オレンジ as ruby but it will seem really odd. I googled 1Q84 and came here. I won’t check your blog back for a while to avoid any spoiler. By the way, 橙 is still read as ‘だいだい’ by Japanese natives including me. There might be a situation somebody put オレンジ as ruby but it will seem really odd.

]]> by: Daniel http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-160 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:15:25 +0100 http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-160 Good point about blue and green. Apparently old Japanese people still call the lights green. I had a really stubborn JTE when I taught English, and he forced the junior high kids to memorize this stupid sentence: "When the light is red I must stop. When the light is blue I can go..." Something like that. Wonder where they got the info for the 6-color rainbow in English. Good point about blue and green. Apparently old Japanese people still call the lights green. I had a really stubborn JTE when I taught English, and he forced the junior high kids to memorize this stupid sentence: “When the light is red I must stop. When the light is blue I can go…” Something like that.

Wonder where they got the info for the 6-color rainbow in English.

]]> by: Adam http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-159 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:32:41 +0100 http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-159 Wow. I've run into anecdotal misconceptions of the perception of rainbows before, plus the belief that there's lack of the color indigo in the English language. Yet to see it written on Wikipedia happens to annoy me quite a bit. Luckily, the good thing about Wikipedia is that you can edit stuff other people wrote... Wow. I’ve run into anecdotal misconceptions of the perception of rainbows before, plus the belief that there’s lack of the color indigo in the English language.

Yet to see it written on Wikipedia happens to annoy me quite a bit.

Luckily, the good thing about Wikipedia is that you can edit stuff other people wrote…

]]> by: Andy Fossett http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-158 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:34:21 +0100 http://howtojapanese.blogsome.com/2009/03/30/p223/#comment-158 Japan dis'ing American color sense? I'd be more impressed if they could figure out the difference between green and blue (e.g. regarding traffic signals). I've never heard of 橙 before. Pretty cool. I'll quiz a few friends about that one later. Japan dis’ing American color sense? I’d be more impressed if they could figure out the difference between green and blue (e.g. regarding traffic signals).

I’ve never heard of 橙 before. Pretty cool. I’ll quiz a few friends about that one later.

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