{"id":36664,"date":"2014-10-29T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=36664"},"modified":"2014-10-29T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:53:37","slug":"%e3%80%90rocketnews24%e3%80%91why-japanese-doesnt-need-swear-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/29\/%e3%80%90rocketnews24%e3%80%91why-japanese-doesnt-need-swear-words\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010RocketNews24\u3011Why Japanese doesn\u2019t need swear words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222\">\n<p style=\"color: #222222\"><em style=\"color: #252525\"><span style=\"color: #666666\">Posted by\u00a0Michelle Lynn Dinh\u00a0(Shimane-ken,\u00a0Chibu-mura,\u00a02010\u201313),\u00a0editor and writer for\u00a0RocketNews24.\u00a0The following article was written by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/author\/casey-baseel\/\">Casey Baseel<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666\">, a writer and translator for\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/\">RocketNews24<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666\">,\u00a0a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/js-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/js-8-e1414626645957.png\" alt=\"js-8\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222\">The other day, my wife and I spent the day hanging out at the beautiful and awesome\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #333399\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/2014\/10\/23\/crimson-covered-hitachi-seaside-park-beautiful-awesome-and-easy-to-get-to-from-tokyo%e3%80%90photos%e3%80%91\/\">Hitachi Seaside Park<\/a>. As we headed towards the exit at dusk, I pointed to a grove of trees with the sun setting behind them and got to bust out one of my favorite five-dollar Japanese vocabulary words:\u00a0<em>komorebi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222\">In retrospect, two things come to mind. First, shouldn\u2019t a five-dollar Japanese word really be a 500-yen word? And second, why is it that the\u00a0<strong>Japanese language<\/strong>\u00a0has vocabulary as specific as\u00a0<em>komorebi<\/em>, meaning \u201csunlight filtering though trees,\u201d yet\u00a0<strong>doesn\u2019t have a good equivalent for *#&amp;!, %?$!, or even &amp;*!$?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222\"><em>Heads up! The following discussion of profanity contains language that might best be read when you\u2019re not at work or school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222\">Read more at R<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/2014\/10\/28\/why-japanese-doesnt-need-swear-words\/\">ocketNews24<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by\u00a0Michelle Lynn Dinh\u00a0(Shimane-ken,\u00a0Chibu-mura,\u00a02010\u201313),\u00a0editor and writer for\u00a0RocketNews24.\u00a0The following article was written by\u00a0Casey Baseel, a writer and translator for\u00a0RocketNews24,\u00a0a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.\u00a0 The other day, my wife and I spent the day hanging out at the beautiful and awesome\u00a0Hitachi Seaside Park. 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