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| Kotowaza
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Japanese
sayings
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proverbs
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expressions. I expected an idle search for 'kotowaza' on the Japanese Yahoo Auction site in Nov 2008 to turn up the usual results - books of sayings, childrens card games with traditional Japanese proverbs etc. But the search turned up some strange results: stickers with foreign (English) proverbs. Some sayings were fairly standard: |
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... and other sayings made sense, but were accompanied by pictures with no straightforward connection to the saying: |
 |  |  What will be, will be |  |
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... and other sayings suffered slightly in the wording: |
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... and if I recall my logic lessons correctly, these two stickers: |
 (No fire implies no smoke) |  (Smoke implies fire) |
... are logically equivalent. |
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