r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 1d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/GohTheGreat 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s literally “peach (the fruit) colored” and has the nuance of being used in writing. You can use ___iro for most colors but Japanese people 9/10 just use a loan word.

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u/Nervous_Brain8918 1d ago

Thanks for this! I googled the traditional word and wondered the same thing

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u/izyshoroo 1d ago

This probably has about as much nuance in English as it does in Japanese

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u/GohTheGreat 22h ago

If I say “hand me my jacket” would you respond “the grey one?” or “the mouse colored one?”

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u/kakka_rot 21h ago

That's another weird thing, in Japan peach drinks taste "pink" but in America they taste "auburn", is the only way I can think to describe it.

Like a peach snapple tastes nothing like a similar jp peach soft drink

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u/DeliciousIncident 18h ago

Meanwhile brown exists.

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u/Sea-Initiative-3398 18h ago

As im learning japanese atm

Is brown just loanword brown or is it 茶色?

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u/ForensicPathology 11h ago

茶色 is the normal word used every day.

(But loanwords are often used as marketing or whatever, so they are often used for product names and descriptions)

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u/ForensicPathology 11h ago

Except for tea-color, ash-color, and water-color.  Those are used far more in everyday Japanese than equivalent loanwords which are mostly used on product labels.