@herndlm for a year we officed out of a storage room of a car mechanic who one day brought us out into the shop to show us his "brand fucking new big ass fan" and it was one of these 🤣
The heating in hotels in Japan is often set so high and it is impossible to open windows. I sometimes have to turn on air condition for a bit to not melt away. 😭 I get all the "make (old) guests comfortable" blah, but this is just such a waste of resources....
I mean this is me in every department store every where. In Winter. While others wear coats. It does definitely not help to feel less like a weird outsider 😅
@herndlm I also love "doctor yellow". A quick google doesn't reveal an obvious association of doctors with the colour yellow, so who knows whats going on here.
I offer you the rabbit hole of Victor Mair's posts at https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ – mostly about Chinese, but somewhere in there I'm sure he links to ppl exploring English-Japanese contact phenomena and translations.