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- Claude seems to be really into japanese customs.by ricardobeat
- Its strange because I knew the point from the article already, but it kinda seems like some sort of strawman? I think many cultures have a way of saying "thanks for the food" in a universal way and not the cook. Even in western cultures there is "saying grace" and I don't think anyone would mistake it for it being aimed at the cook.by tekla
- Japanese also has a word you say to the cook, ご馳走様でした (gochisousama deshita) but that's said after the meal as thanks.by dllu
- > The gloss is not wrong. But it has quietly relocated the word.
Thanks, Fable
- I feel like this is intellectualizing something that isn't that deep. It's a word you say, not think about. Why do English speakers say "excuse me" after a sneeze? The answer is apocryphal and uninteresting.
- Article falls flat, there’s more,
https://cotoacademy.com/itadakimasu-and-gochisousamadesu/
I could write it up, but this article explains it more. You should really be learning Gochisousama Deshita (ごちそうさまでした) too.
I feel the article is flat because normally you learn both expressions at the same time because it completes a small ritual to, literally thank the cook.
Also em dash galore.
by rootsudo - Fun trivia: the greeting only started to become a thing during the Meiji era as part of moral and ethics education. It may be argued that it has its roots in Buddhist teachings, but there's a theory that the drive to make it a common household practice may have come from the envoys who came back from western countries and saw the Christian prayer and thought it was a good thing to imitate. It's quite a stretch, but personally I find it quite interesting given that it was an era where Westernization was the craze.by syockit
- Claude, pick an arbitrary Japanese word that shows up often in anime and write a blog post about how deep it is.