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2017.02.12<\/p>\n
It may be a bit late to explain why this blog is called Buatsui Soup. My excuse is that I doubt many people are wondering about it. Nevertheless, I worry that it’s rude to think up a cryptic title when there’s no way anyone could work out the meaning.<\/p>\n
Firstly, calling soup \u201cbuatsui\u201d is one of several mistakes I used to make in Japanese at first \u2013 because I thought buatsui (thick) was the opposite of usui (thin). It’s quite childish but I find this sort of mistake amusing and still occasionally deliberately drop this sort of pigeon Japanese into conversation (along with atsui mizu, samui koucha etc.)<\/p>\n
Secondly, when we were discussing what this blog would be \u201cabout\u201d the answer was that it wouldn’t exactly be about anything in particular. It’s not about Japan; it’s not about the UK; it’s not about football; it’s not about something-interesting-that-happened-to-me-on-the-way-to-the-shops. It’s about any of those things, possibly a mixture of those things, and possibly about something else.<\/p>\n
I thought it was a bit like soup in that soup \u201cis\u201d whatever you put into it. Onion soup and tomato soup aren’t the same thing but they are still soup.<\/p>\n
I hope that makes sense... even while I know it’s rather nonsensical.<\/p>\n
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