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WD_064 / 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings | | Medium: | crayon and pencil on paper | | Size (inches): | 11.5 x 8.2 | | Size (mm): | 297 x 210 | | Catalog #: | WD_064 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Lost in Translation:
I like Aussie, no, not Orgy. Aussie!
-A Japanese tourist in Sydney, 1986.
Japanese language (Redirected from Japanese):
Japanese is the language spoken on the island nation of Japan, in East Asia. Japanese has two alphabets, katakana, and hiragana. Katakana is for words from outside of Japan. Hiragana is for words from inside Japan. Each alphabet has letters that you say as sounds, or syllables. Katakana have more straight edges and jagged corners than hiragana. Hiragana is more curvy than katakana.
There is a third way to write, called kanji, where every word or idea has a picture character. 1000s of kanji are needed to read. Many kanji are made from smaller, simpler kanji. Each kanji may sound differently when used in a different way.
Japan has only five vowel sounds. They are ah, E, oo, eh, and O. Japanese has L and R as one sound between L and R. That is why it may be difficult for Japanese to pronounce the English L. Japanese has a sound not found in English, that is usually written Tsu.
Japanese has no spaces between words, so kanji help seperate words in a sentence.
Japanese can be written in 2 ways.
1. From left to right, to the bottom of the page.
2. From top to bottom, to the left of the page.
In Japanese, the verb is at the end of the sentence, and the subject is at the begining. The subject can be left out, because a lot of Japanese is implied.
.jp is a domain for Japanese web sites.
In Japanese, Japan is called Nihon, and Japanese is called Nihongo.
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-Wikipedia, the free simple English encyclopedia.
ORGY (through French from Lat. orgia, Gr. 6ryta, in derivation connected probably with ~p~ov, work; cf. Lat. operare, to sacrifice), a term originally denoting the secret rites or ceremonies connected with the worship of certain deities, especially those of Dionysus-Bacchus. The Dionysiac orgies, which were restricted to women, were celebrated in the winter among the Thracian hills or in spots remote from city life. The women met, clad in fawn-skins, with hair dishevelled, swinging the thyrsus and beating the cymbal; they danced and worked themselves up to a state of mad excitement. The holiest rites took place at night by the light of torches. A bull, the representative of the god, was torn in pieces by them as DionysusZagreus had been torn; his bellowing reproduced the cries of the suffering god. The women tore the bull with their teeth, and the eating of the raw flesh was a necessary part of the ritual. Some further rites, which varied in different districts, represented the resurrection of the god in the spring. On Mount Parnassus the women, carried back Dionysus-Licnites, the child cradled in the winnowing fan. The most famous festival of the kind was the i-ptsr~pts celebrated every second winter on Parnassus by the women of Attica and Phocis. The celebrants were called Maenads or Bacchae. The ecstatic enthusiasm of the Thracian women, KXc~wv~s or MtuctXXbv~, was especially distinguished. The wild dances, songs, drinking and other orgiastic ceremonies which were characteristic of these rites have given rise to the use of the word orgy for any drunken, wild revel or festivity (see DIONYsus and MYSTERY).
-1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
orgy:
SYLLABICATION: or·gy
PRONUNCIATION: ôrj
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. or·gies
1. A revel involving unrestrained indulgence, especially sexual activity.
2. Uncontrolled or immoderate indulgence in an activity: an orgy of spending. See synonyms at binge.
3. A secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities, typically involving frenzied singing, dancing, drinking, and sexual activity.
ETYMOLOGY: From orgies, secret rites, from Old French, from Latin orgia, from Greek. See werg- in Appendix I.
WORD HISTORY: The word orgy has become connected in the minds of many of us with unrestrained sexual activity, but its origins are much less licentious. We can trace the word as far back as the Indo-European root *werg–, meaning “to do,” also the source of our word work. Greek orgia, “secret rites, worship,” comes from *worg–, one form of this root. The Greek word was used with reference to the rites practiced in the worship of various deities, such as Orpheus and Dionysus. The word in Greek did not denote sexual activity, although this was a part of some rites. The rites of Dionysus, for example, included only music, dancing, drinking, and the eating of animal sacrifices. Having passed through Latin and Old French into English, the word orgy is first recorded in English with reference to the secret rites of the Greek and Roman religions in 1589. It is interesting to note that the word is first recorded with its modern sense
in 18th-century English and perhaps in 17th-century French. Whether this speaks to a greater licentiousness in society or not must be left to the historian, but certainly the religious nature of the word has gone into eclipse.
-The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
The word orgy has become connected in the minds of many of us with unrestrained sexual activity, but its origins are much less licentious. - from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Get it? This is another "Lost in Translation" in Western society.
-A Japanese tourist in Sydney, 2004
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