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cm0002@lemdro.id to World News@quokk.au · 2 days ago

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

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Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

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cm0002@lemdro.id to World News@quokk.au · 2 days ago
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The term - kokushobi - translates to "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot", and comes after Japan's hottest summer on record.
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    Missed opportunity to name it after automanufacturers.

    Especially given Toyota’s lobbying against fuel efficiency standards.

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      We can call it Toyotathon days or happy Honda days!

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        🎶 Olé, olé! Olé, olé! Toyota’s hot hot hot! 🎶

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    Hotty McHot Day ?

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    Paywalled

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    Name it the new normal. Because it’s gonna be.

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    Surely BBC has nothing more important to report on if it’s doing this. Right?

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      News isn’t a zero sum game. Like, I don’t think the White House correspondent or the middle east desk was working on this particular story.

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        True, but Japan coining a term like “it was a really hot day” is not really newsworthy is it?

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          Not especially, no. But it is a good way to start talking about climate change, which is mainly what the article is actually about.

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            we’ve talked the existence of climate change to death

            until we start seeing hard hitting accusatory pieces aimed at the actual major players I’m not really interested

            another useless puff piece sanity-washing our collapse

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    The name emerged as the most popular in a national online survey, with “super extremely hot day” in second place.

    I had to look this up and I’m surprised this wasn’t some wordplay that they just didn’t bother to translate. It really was just stacking another modifier on the old hottest category. 超猛暑日/猛暑日 chomoshobi/moshobi

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    Down here in Florida, we just call it “a scorcher”. 🥵

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    Here in Brisbane, that’s just January. Further north, it’s even more usual.

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    Exxon days

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