Monday, January 19, 2009 8:58 PM
Heartless Ridicule
Dear Shinohara Rikuun,
Congratulations - not only have you plastered a non-existent English word on the side of your truck, you have also spelt it incorrectly. Presumably because you couldn't find it in a dictionary. It's certainly in none of mine.
I know it says on your website "限りない挑戦" ("Challenge without limits"), but sometimes you just gotta bow to the inevitable and find many happiness in your daily life without overstretching your linguistic resources.
Admittedly you will find the word on Google, but the first entry is from the mindbogglingly authoritative Urban Dictionary, and of the nine other entries on the first page, five are somehow Japan-related and of the others, two represent touchy-feely arty-farty type websites. Hardly a sign of a word in common circulation in the English-speaking world, I submit.
Actually, let's see what happens if we enter the word into the Heartful Dictionary, the number two result in Google provided by that hotbed of linguistic research, the Toyohashi University of Technology:
Well, as they say around here, "the twitterings of a lark catching my ear with pleasant sound".
@ Penguin -- I'm glad we could provide wonderfull and beauty information to you. Please making sure you are safety driver.