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Anon watches The Last Samurai (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I found this comment while looking for the quote.

The words samurai is considered the plural form. The movie is about Lord Katsumoto and his clan of samurai during the period in the transformation of Japan from a feudal society into a modern industrial power. Not exclusively about Tom Cruise’s character. Katsumoto felt that Japan was changing too rapidly and it’s losing its cultural values and traditions in the rush to become regional power.

Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie, but it's an interesting insight that goes past the normal knee jerk reaction.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The words samurai is considered the plural form

That's... not how Japanese works

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

English (like any other language) likes to take loan words and apply its conventions to them, regardless of what the original language does. "Samurai" is singular and plural in English.

"The Last Samurai" is vague in who it's referring to.

[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I said Japanese though, not English. "samurai" is both singular and plural in both languages

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What are you arguing about? The statement I quoted said that "samurai" is plural. Nothing that you said has contradicted that. In fact, you're only agreeing with it with this last statement. Doesn't matter that it didn't mention if it can be used as singular as it's not relevant.

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