That, and well, ... I'm expecting someone to commit 心中 (or the solo version of it) somewhere down the line. It is a rather common trope of Japanese storytelling of the era but not exactly in line with the contemporary western zeitgeist...
) and I don't want them to get jumpscared when I or the others decided to play that unwholesome part and report the whole thing to the mods. :'(
What does it means in Cantonese?
Same as the other meaning that's also in Japanese "in one's mind" or "in one's heart", cuz Japan had this proverb "山中の賊を破るは易く、心中の賊を破るは難し"(It is easy to defeat a bandit in the mountains, but difficult to defeat a bandit in your own heart).
Could be. I have also yet to find the explanation for the reason behind the usage of that compound word. All I know is that the word seemed to have already been popularly used since the Edo times.
Seems like 殉情 just means something else in Japanese. There's a lot of "false friends" like this in the two languages and got me confused when I tried to learn the language lol. like 怪我(JP: injured, CN: blame me), 大家(JP: landlord, CN: Everybody), 学長(JP: Principal of the University, CN: Senior student), 汽車(JP: train, CN: car), 親友(JP: Best Friend, CN: Relatives and Friends), 迷惑 (JP: trouble, CN: confuse), 前年 (JP: last year, CN: the year before last year). One I find particularily funny is 老婆 (JP: old woman, CN: wife).
I can't find any entry for 殉情 in JP dict, except for the meaning of the individual kanji, so this compound word is definitely not a Japanese word. I could also argue that a lot of similar languages with common roots often confuse the words for car and train. In Japanese, I noticed that the kanji 長 tends to refer to leadership position, apparently that doesn't seemed to be the case for CN?
No that is the same in CN, it comes of 長官 (officer), so there's titles like 艦長(captain of warship), 船長(captain of ship), 機長 (captain of aircraft), 首長 (leader), 院長(dean/headmaster/department head), 議長(speaker of the house), 部長(minister/department head), 司長(director general/chief secretary), 局長(department head/director general), 省長(provincial governor), 州長(state governor), 市長(mayor), etc
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Will make a post tomorrow, I am feeling sick :cGokigenyou~ Pardon that I haven't been able to check on the RP more regularly these days as I have been busy with various things. Like usual, I would like to check up on the progress of the RP, and it seemed that the latest post for the main student group has already passed the 7-day interval, so I would really appreciate it if the participants in that group could let me know when you will be able to post your replies.
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, I only noticed just now that you were still tagging viviionne in your post. She has taken a break from roleplaying and probably won't come back in the near future. So, in order to not disturb her, perhaps it'd be good if you could remove her tag in your future posts.
Okie dokie I'll take her off once I am home, at work righr now.
Thank you for giving a detailed description of your knowledge on the stuff that I've been struggling the most to depicts in the RP. Most of the stuff regarding Christianity you mentioned is news to me, so I took my time to read it first. And yes, exactly like you said, I'm not particularly attached to any denomination; what I'm looking for is the one that will match the established aesthetics of the Class S and Yuri genres. The reason why I initially lean more into Catholicism is because I have this notion of aniconism in Protestantism. Reverence of the Saints, fine arts depictions of the Virgin Mary, stained glass windows, rosary or cross pendants are among the aesthetics that I'm looking to come out in play somewhere down the line.
