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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fun fact: the name "Miyazaki" comes from 宮 miya (shrine) + 﨑 saki (small peninsula). The saki becomes zaki due to rendaku, a sound change that often happens in Japanese compound words; there is also "Miyasaki" as a variant reading of the surname without rendaku.

In any case, this means that the surname Miyazaki is essentially identical in meaning to the surname Kirkness, and the toponym Kirkenes, if we treat churches and Shinto shrines as equivalents to one another in the respective cultures.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll treat anything as anything if i get to compare some words 🤤

this is great, thank you, Erika!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Actually, I didn't notice this until now, but the surname Harkness also works as an equivalent to Miyazaki, since OE hearg meant "altar; sacred place; temple".

People apparently just really like naming their families after sacred peninsulas! Who knew!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i prefer miyazake (a shrine where we worship booze)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely miyazaké would be booze from a shrine, no? ;-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

i have no idea, i just knew that sake can do the same consonant shift lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rendaku

Hey, we have that in English too; for example old English words like knigt gets rendered, or rendaku, into knight! (idk I'm just kidding; I'm really tired and when the thought occurred to me I thought it too funny not to post it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Me, sitting in the perfect center of the back of the bus with glazed over, unfocused eyes: blob-no-thoughts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to think of the funniest way to combine all their authorial quirks (poison swamps, airplanes, not explaining any of the backstory, stopping everything to animate the procedures of the protagonist's day to day life) but I just got Nausicaa

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Princess Mononoke is my favorite, but they're basically the same story, so of course Nausicaa is up there.

The toxic jungle is really cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Can't top the Nausicaa tunes either. So incredibly 80s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Goro Miyazaki looking exactly like Hayao but Goro is just looking at Hayao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

shamelessly cribbed from here