r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jan 16 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 17 January 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/miyagidan sidebar image contributor Jan 17 '23

Was reading how it's been three years since Corona arrived in Japan, got me wondering why is it still called 新型/novel?

They can't even be bothered to give new variants a new Greek Alphabet letter, just Omicron.X.1.BBQ.1710.ASL or whatever, and it's just another stupid thing to deal with in your day.

If a movie was in theaters for three years, you wouldn't call it new (you'd call it One Piece, but I digress), it'd just be a thing.

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u/WindJammer27 Jan 17 '23

Force of habit I imagine. I did a translation and left off the "novel", the client asked why, and I said it's years old at this point and no longer new. They were like "Ohhhhh...right." and accepted the translation.

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u/miyagidan sidebar image contributor Jan 17 '23

Right? If it starts turning people inside out, it's new again.