Corn is no place for a mighty warrior

Ooh, good question! My guess is that the alcohol gets its name from the color word, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who knows more

For example, Japanese speakers will refer to a traffic light as being 青い instead of 緑. Also, there's a region in northern Japan called 青森 ('Blue Forest').

Episode 5 of the podcast @lingthusiasm.bsky.social is a great look into the linguistics of color words, if you're into that sort of thing.

Oh boy I know this one! Yep, the Japanese word 青い (aoi) was historically used for shades of both blue and green. The word 緑 (midori) developed more recently to refer specifically to green, so now 青い is pretty much just used for blue except in specific contexts.

That's why they're called breakfast socks

I know that feeling though

Ah, yes. You should definitely try to emulate your American peers. Things are great here. Never mind that we have a lower life expectancy and higher homicide and suicide rates than any country in western Europe. Things are wonderful here. Be like us. 🥲

I'll petition to put a statue of you next to Bobby

Me too, friend. Meeee tooooooo

Anybody else working on a novel with an extremely depressed main character because that's all you're capable of writing at this point?