Talk:Akizuki/@comment-141.0.12.128-20151104115516


 * A reference to an anecdotal incident where Meiji era writer Natsume Sōseki, during his time as an English teacher, suggested to his students that the English phrase "I love you" be translated as "The moon is beautiful" (月が綺麗ですね).

natsume was very fluent in english, spent several years there and read a lot of english literature too (heh, i recall i read a very nice 18 century english poem about a cat drowning into a tub with goldfishes when i read an article about natsume's life). he clearly knew what that phrase meant but thought that the direct translation was too blunt for the meiji japanese and suggested a way to say the same without saying explicitly... imo it's weird but your comment is dubious and with a certain interpretation makes him look like a fool, i don't particularly liek him (tbh i dropped i'm cat at the first original chapter which used to be a separate story before was remade into the novel), he wasn't a fool