Shu reminded me this week that Japanese has no equivalent expression to “it smells fishy.” From actual fish to metaphorical shadyness, smelling fishy is always bad in English. In Japan, it means breakfast, lunch or dinner is ready!
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Categories: Public space · Uncanny
Tagged: breakfast, dinner, English, fish, fishy, food, Japanese, lunch, shady
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