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RE: Frosty Rose :: Haiku of Japan #66
I can't believe that bara is a rose, such a weird word for it haha, irichin would have been much better!
I agree, Flickr has plenty of awesome photos, I used to visit it often back in the day :).
haha well, you'll have to take that up with the language police. Maybe we can petition to have the two words switched ;) Technically two words. ichi is one and rin is the counter word for flowers (and wheels).
I am gonna write straight to the president of Japan and require they make changes to the language haha!
Ichirin would be an awesome word for a rose, but now I see that rin is many roses haha so complicated!
no, it's just a counter. So whenever we count flowers we use it. 1 rin, 2 rin. Think of counters like the group words we use in english. a block of cheese, a head a lettuce, a (my favorite) murder of crows.
Anyway, I support your idea. We should write a letter!
I think I understand now, never heard of the murder of crows before haha, that is a deadly one!
Thanks!
That last grouping word leads to one of my favorite memes.
Hahaha this is super funny, good thing I learned about this today :D