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Re:Kairos by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:26AM (#28818247)
I love when different languages use one word to mean seemingly unrelated (or at most tangentially related) things, but in the same way.

In French the word for time is also used for weather, e.g. "Le temps est nuageux" is "The weather is cloudy" and "Y a-t-il assez de temps" is "Is there enough time?".

Re:Kairos by Grieving on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:37AM (#28818761)
Another one that stuck with me is that "matsu" in Japanese matches both English senses of "pine": the pine tree, or being consumed with longing.
Re:Kairos by VRay on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:18PM (#28820131)
Those are different words with different kanji

松 - pine tree

待つ - wait

Japanese has a ludicrous number of homophones and words that sound like homophones to non-native speakers, so I dunno if there’s much advantage to digging into them

Re:Kairos by Grieving on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:40PM (#28820880)
Yeah, it's not quite the same situation, but it's an interesting synchronicity. They're technically different words in English as well, but have converged in pronunciation and spelling. It's not just a random set of homophones, but served as a pun in the title of Matsukaze. It's as though the "nothing" in Much Ado About Nothing just happened to have all of the same double-meanings in Japanese as in Elizabethan English ("gossip", "vagina").
Re:Kairos by forty on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:36AM (#28818746)
Apparently this double meaning also already existed in Latin (tempus) so it must have spreaded to many languages after that (both from the Greek and Latin roots)