Comment by aebtebeten
5 days ago
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One of the ways to learn a smattering of a language would be to look at YouTube comments; sentences of the form "in YYYY they still made real music" and "is anyone watching in YYYY?" seem to occur in every natural language.
(for Sekigahara I wonder if part of the issue was credibility: if Tokugawa promises so many koku, you can be pretty sure you're getting them [and in the event he even lasted into his 70s] but if Ishida promises you so many koku, well, a lot can happen in 7-8 years: what are the chances that young Toyotomi will honour Ishida's old deals?)
Edit: come to think of it, both Shu and Wu do spend many of their waking hours trying to figure out how to intermediate themselves into any possible otherwise-dyadic transaction... Wei supposedly does as well, but compared with Shu and Wu, at least here, Wei has a light touch.
more evidence in favor of PH's hypo: I'm bouncing off the 粤剧 :(
Ah you read that the singer, e.g., was canto-op trained? (From prelude I was expecting Morricone https://youtu.be/R4xWbRBLj2I:)
Re koku:
You bring the point that politics goes back to an older mode where one does not have to account for solidarity (so, not even morality)?
(Headspace is crowded. Might have to take things slowly.)