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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

i prefer miyazake (a shrine where we worship booze)

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] booty@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

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

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

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

this is great, thank you, Erika!

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months 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!

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

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)

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

I don't get it

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago
[-] Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Chump@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

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

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

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

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

shamelessly cribbed from here

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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