Comment on nuked from orbit

• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not quite but I can see why people think so. Both words stem from the same Kanji pair: 切腹. Cut stomach.

  But one is read natively (harakiri) with an informal and colloquial feel to it and the other uses borrowed Chinese pronunciations (seppuku) that makes it sound more formal/ritualistic and so it’s used in official documents. But they mean the same thing.

  Another related example is Japan’s own name: 日本. It’s usually read as “nihon” but has a special, formal reading of “nippon”.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just want a tantō that moans as I commit seppuku.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just make sure the source code gets posted to Github

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you’re planning to kill yourself, you need to commit first!

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• kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I named one of our work projects ‘project seppeku’ once. Boss was not amused when someone told him what it meant, but it went undiscovered for longer than I would have imagined, which simultaneosly made me happy and hurt my feelings.

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