Okay, so in my psych class my teacher was talking about how you can tell how important ideas are in a culture by how many different words that culture has for the same thing. Like, for example, how many different ways you can say attractive. What was really interesting is that when the class was throwing out synonyms for 'attractive' the women would pick more neutral words while the men would pick sexually charged ones. For example:
Women: beautiful, pretty, cute.
Men: sexy, hot, breathtaking.
Which was interesting. Mainly I was thinking of all the words we have for 'stupid' and how Japanese only has one.
Also, this weeks
fannish5 :
List the five most surprising moments in any canon.(I picked good surprising instead of bad surprising).
Beware, spoilers!
1.)
Princess Tutu. ( Read more... )2.)
Avatar.
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Firefly. ( Read more... )4.)
Naruto.
SAI. I was spoiled for basically everything that happened in Naruto, except for Sai. My reaction, when I got to this hot, competent, badass shinobi with believable angst who is willing to IMPROVE HIMSELF who was saying everything we think about Sasuke totally unapologetically, has the best abs ever (seriously, can I lick his hipbones? Please?) and that delightfully massive crush on Sakura was this: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE LAST 282 CHAPTERS AND WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT YOU BEFORE?
5.)
Soul Eater. ( Read more... )