"Butterflies in my stomach" sounds like horror to Japanese. What Japanese idioms sound creepy toyou?

I recently realized a fascinating cultural and linguistic gap. In English, the phrase "I have butterflies in my stomach" is a common idiom for feeling nervous or excited. However, to a Japanese speaker, picturing actual insects fluttering or squirming inside the belly sounds completely horrifying—very much like a scene out of a Kazuo Umezu horror manga!

This made me wonder about the reverse situation. In Japanese, there are many body-related idioms or onomatopoeias that sound perfectly normal to native speakers, but might sound incredibly creepy, bizarre, or grotesque when interpreted literally by English speakers.

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u/pine_kz — 4 days ago
▲ 7 r/newsokunomoral+1 crossposts

全面翻訳化

ワールドカップ見てる間に reddit が変わっていて、nomoral にも英語原文の投稿が和文に変換されて並ぶようになった。

翻訳ボタンの有無で日本語投稿かどうかが判るのだが、仏語とかスペイン語とかマルチ言語との関係が良くわからん。

自分の日本語が英語に変換されると英語標準であると判るのだが、そうではないし、誰か知ってる?

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u/pine_kz — 1 month ago

VIA vs magnetic adapter?

In developping QMK module, I use magnetic USB-C adapter as I need to use bootMagic.

I loose VIA keymap with coinciderable probability probability when doing insert and remove.

Would that be okay for VIA HID protocol?

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u/pine_kz — 2 months ago