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This one gets a little weird in the telling but I’m going to try anyway.
The Japanese word for milk is 牛乳. The first character means cow. The second character… well, I’ve only ever seen it in dairy-related words so it probably means milk. Right?
Flash forward to Ken and I watching the news on tv. A list of cancers pops up on the screen during a story. Japanese characters carry meaning so even if you can’t pronounce the word you can deduce what it means anyway. Example: white-blood-sickness is leukemia, a cancer characterized by having too many white blood cells.
So on this list I see stomach-cancer. Skin-cancer. Lung-cancer. And then there’s… milk-cancer.
“Huh, that’s a novel way to think of breast cancer,” I said to Ken. “Cancer of the milk. I guess that works.”
“Actually,” he replied, “that character means breast, not milk.”
“Ohhhh, I see.”
I thought on it some.
“So wait a second, all this time I’ve been using the word 牛乳 thinking it means cow-milk. I’ve actually been writing cow-boob?!”
Ken thought on that some.
“Yeah.”
~the sound of Karla’s mind being blown~
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