False Etymologies and Kanji: Day 1

I am excited to present my first installment of...

*drumroll*

...FE&K, also known as 無実語源と漢字 (if you want a translation, look at the title of this post ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This is going to be a semi-regular (read: whenever I think of any) feature with my legitimate mistaken etymologies and my humorous mistaken etymologies; namely, how I think a word I hear is written, or how I think a word should be written, along with the meaning that would come from that, the real writing, and the real meaning.


Let's begin:

事実ひらがな: The Word	無実書き方: False Writing	無実意味: False Meaning	事実書き方:True Writing	事実意味:True Meaning
みずから	水から	from water	自ら	(for) oneself
はなから	花から	from a flower	端から	from the beginning
てつや	鉄屋	iron store	徹夜	pulling an all-nighter
あいさつ/td>	愛殺	killing for love	あいさつ	greetings

If I think of any more, they are going to go into the next FE&K, so stay tuned. Don't touch that dial. No one knows what it does, but the last person who touched it was never seen again. In the sense that everyone else went blind.

New Blog: Mukankei-Nashi

So, I am starting a new blog.

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I say "new" blog, despite the fact that I haven't posted to my humor/CS/math blog, From Cauchy-Schwartz to Groucho Marx, in over a year.

Nevertheless, as they say, 終わりよければすべてよし. Or, since this is intended to be an English-based bi-lingual Japanese blog, "All's well that ends well." Whatever that is supposed to mean in this context .

In case you haven't gathered already, this is going to be a humor/japanese blog, where I intend to post my experiences learning Japanese, my random musings, and occasionally my insane mnemonics.

お楽しみに \(^o^)/