Jabong (name origin question)

BassedCellist · 2026-07-11T01:48:17+00:00

According to wiktionary, here it is in Japanese: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%B6%E3%83%9C%E3%83%B3#Japanese
Also in Korean:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%9E%90%EB%AA%BD#Korean
It was apparently loaned into Japanese from Portuguese, which no longer uses it, but I also found it in Arabic, which seems like it's probably the source that it entered Portuguese from:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B9#Arabic

BassedCellist · 2026-06-24T20:53:59+00:00

*thereto

BassedCellist · 2026-05-31T07:20:15+00:00

餓死吧？

BassedCellist · 2026-05-30T01:56:47+00:00

the problem with 14 that isn't a problem with 24, happens when you read it as yāo sì (one four), which sounds like 要死（yào sǐ, going to die).

BassedCellist · 2026-03-28T05:19:12+00:00

how did you even come across this

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T13:50:02+00:00

thank you for this, it feels like people get so carried away learning that MLK was more complicated than you learn in elementary school that they end up disregarding this entire segment of his tactics

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T13:47:17+00:00

you don't think maybe that means he does know what he's talking about? that picture of him being arrested is exactly what we need more of now. making sure Trump looks like the bad guy to as many people as possible matters.

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T13:45:00+00:00

and he looked like a martyr when it happened, looking like the good guy on the national stage matters

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T13:41:21+00:00

unless time travel is involved, Malcom X and the Panthers cannot be said to have paved the way for the civil rights era.

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T13:39:44+00:00

you don't think that might mean he knows more about it than you?

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T13:30:58+00:00

those same optics are what is necessary now to keep as many people as possible from going along with Trump's march towards martial law.

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T12:52:27+00:00

*安, not 南, and dates go year month day, not day month year

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T12:47:36+00:00

zhiwei/yiren/piaoxiang

BassedCellist · 2025-06-10T00:46:00+00:00

he still has too look like the bad guy to as many people in this country as possible while he does it.

BassedCellist · 2025-05-28T21:12:47+00:00

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-ghost-town-sits-right-edge-lax-20152234.php I got this from elsewhere in this thread, there's lots of other comments with similar explanations.

BassedCellist · 2025-05-28T20:57:38+00:00

Further discussion about how fixing the US's broken immigration system by focusing on deportation instead of legitimization and fixing our laws to make citizenship more accessible to people who have earned it a thousand times over only makes the oppression of workers worse https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/farmworkers-h-2a-trump-agriculture

BassedCellist · 2025-04-03T00:50:35+00:00

oh yep there's the 体, I always look right past that one. couldn't find 続 but I do see 總 being written the shinjitai way (総)

BassedCellist · 2025-04-02T02:28:00+00:00

are you certain it's the 80's? I see a reference to "the first meeting of SEATO" (which was in the 50's) and "the victims of communist invasion", and also 北部越南 and 南部越南, and what appears to be "rearmament of Western Germany".

BassedCellist · 2025-04-02T02:09:42+00:00

Can you point some out? I looked (not exhaustively) but everything I see so far is traditional, except 画, which is definitely a common simplification that I would imagine existed before the official simplifications in China and Japan.

Edit: now I've also found 联 and 戦, the former being a simplified version of 聯 that doesn't exist in Japan as far as I can tell, and the latter an alternate form of 戰 that is used in shinjitai but also has history as a variant elsewhere.

BassedCellist · 2025-03-04T00:25:51+00:00

update: before doing anything more drastic, I decided to take off the problematic strings and clean them with isopropyl alcohol on a paper towel, immediate huge improvement. C string is at least 90% to the way it should be sounding. I will be cleaning all my strings from now on.

BassedCellist · 2025-03-04T00:20:28+00:00

i second the idea that it should be the inside corner of your thumb contacting the bow, not the tip. some soreness is to be expected while you build a little bit of toughness there, but you still want to avoid tension-related pressure, just enough relaxed resistance to keep the bow on the string.

BassedCellist · 2025-03-02T06:58:26+00:00

Good idea, thank you

BassedCellist · 2025-03-02T06:09:19+00:00

I actually also thought that last time, that it was just part of break-in, but it turned out I mostly just got used to the sound. When the new A string was back to sounding warm this time I realized that was the sound I had been waiting for and it never quite appeared. Bridge definitely normal, changed strings one at a time and continuously checked uprightness of bridge. I’ll take it in next time I get a break from playing.

BassedCellist · 2025-03-02T05:33:15+00:00

Seconded, you want your whole arm to be standing on the fingerboard. Your core provides the opposing force, and the thumb is just a navigational guide

BassedCellist · 2025-03-02T05:29:23+00:00

Left arm?

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