Yeah, Scott Adams does seem to be losing it. Maybe he needed to actually work in a cubicle in order to keep his office spewing comedy mojo working.
Your language explorations are always interesting and entertaining - but the derivations of yanki(i) both seem equally plausible and highly entertaining on different levels - making them fungible, ne? Surprising that you had not heard that word before, it's one of my favorites! I like to think of it as growing green on the wrong side of an unseen tree in the forrest....if nobody sees it, does it exist? lol.
In any case, this explanation of Inuyasha's favorite grunt phrase of dismissal and exasperation sounds great - but does it work for Japan post 1543, which is pretty much when IY takes place? Was "ja nai" in place then, ready to be morphed? Do we know? (Do we care?)
Now, as to the Fire Horse Women and Tomoe.....Yikes! Must investigate! Would Kenny have known her birth year? He didn't know much of anything else about her. Even more interesting, did Watsuki know? Sometimes I wonder if we end up knowing more about the "etymology" of his characters than he ever intended or imagined. But that's a good thing!
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Your language explorations are always interesting and entertaining - but the derivations of yanki(i) both seem equally plausible and highly entertaining on different levels - making them fungible, ne? Surprising that you had not heard that word before, it's one of my favorites! I like to think of it as growing green on the wrong side of an unseen tree in the forrest....if nobody sees it, does it exist? lol.
In any case, this explanation of Inuyasha's favorite grunt phrase of dismissal and exasperation sounds great - but does it work for Japan post 1543, which is pretty much when IY takes place? Was "ja nai" in place then, ready to be morphed? Do we know? (Do we care?)
Now, as to the Fire Horse Women and Tomoe.....Yikes! Must investigate! Would Kenny have known her birth year? He didn't know much of anything else about her. Even more interesting, did Watsuki know? Sometimes I wonder if we end up knowing more about the "etymology" of his characters than he ever intended or imagined. But that's a good thing!
Carry on....