A good way to remember 陳腐 (chimpu) meaning ‘stale, hackneyed, cliched’pic.twitter.com/UUfx58cNpR
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A good way to remember 陳腐 (chimpu) meaning ‘stale, hackneyed, cliched’pic.twitter.com/UUfx58cNpR
無限の猿定理 (mugen no saru teiri) ‘Infinite Monkey Theorem’ The idea that a monkey hitting a keyboard for an infinite period of time will eventually write a tweet that will get good numbers.
Funny how the wasei-kango word for theory sounds so similar to "theory" in various languages. Phono-semantic matching?
I wondered that too...a quick search online shows people disagreeing. It does seem that the word only started being used in the Edo period (before that it was simply 理) - so the foreign word could have been in mind.
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