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9000859 No.9000859 [Reply] [Original]

Do the Japanese have separate words for moth and butterfly?

>> No.9000860

What a gay question.

Are you sexually attracted to the same sex, OP?

>> No.9000863

No, but let me show you what also shares a word with moth and butterfly in japanese.

*whips out dick*

>> No.9000867
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9000867

They don't have separate words for raven and crow do they?

I want to know if the Taira crest is a moth or a butterfly.

>> No.9000872

Moth = が (ka)
Butterfly = ちょう (chii-u)

>> No.9000873

蛾
蝶
Here you go.

>> No.9000875

Mothra - moth
Battra - butterfly

>> No.9000881
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9000881

gise what if godzilla was a skeleton

>> No.9000890

>>9000867

Japanese refer to both crows and ravens as "karasu".

>> No.9000895

>>9000881
Is there even a skeleton kaiju? Feels like there should be one.

>> No.9000904

>>9000867 They don't have separate words for raven and crow do they?
They don't need too. Raven are a sub-specie of crows. They are called crows in other languages too (like great crow in French, imperial crow in Italian,...).

>> No.9000909

>>9000904
Come on, ravens look totally different from crows.

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>>9000909
Thanks for your insight anon.
It sure puts ornithologists to shame.

>> No.9000967

>>9000939
What now? Ornithologists distinguish between ravens and crows. I'm saying that it's funny that the Japanese don't.

And saying "great crow" or "imperial crow" instead of "crow" definitely differentiates between the two.

>> No.9000977

Do the Japanese have separate words for Ox and Bull?

>> No.9000978

>>9000909
That's like saying goldfish look different to fish, dude

>> No.9000985

>>9000967
A raven is a type of crow, is what he's saying.

We had a similar argument a while back, because sakura refers to both trees that produce cherries and "cherry blossoms".

>> No.9000987

>>9000978
Uh, no. Saying ravens look different from birds would be like saying goldfish look different from fish.

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>>9000985
>A raven is a type of crow, is what he's saying.

I know that. But it's pretty easy to tell a raven apart from the other, smaller members of the Genus Corvus.

>> No.9001012

>>9000987
Oh shit my point was that it was a higher order, not that they're both types or w/e

Couldn't think of a good example lol

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9001030

So... back to butterflies and moths and the Taira clan.

What do you think about their Crest, /jp/?

>> No.9001051

Ravens are crows
Sakura are cherry trees
Goldfish are carp
Doves are pigeons

>> No.9001052

>>9000872
>Butterfly = ちょう (chii-u)
You mean chou

>> No.9002324

They don't have separate words for irony and sarcasm either. In comparison to English it's a very stunted language.

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