Wednesday 23 November 2011

Roan words: part 2

1) Murakami's Dance Dance Dance was, in the original, dansu dansu dansu. Do the Japanese have no native word for 'dance'? Or is this a particular (non-native) type of dancing?

2) But Norwegian Wood was Norowei no mori. Even though it's not about some wood from Norway, or a wood in Norway - but, tangentially at least, about 'Norwegian Wood', the song by the Beatles.

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