Who do you think is better to buy uniforms, Daka or Barnes?

[KingsX]

35 minutes ago, gerblod said:

Beautiful design, but is not the Great Wave off Kanagawa the work of Katsushika Hokusai?

 

Looked it up -- you are absolutely right.  Although both guys did monster waves with Mt Fuji in the back.

 

 

Dag, those 19th century Japanese could plagiarize.  Hiroshige must have known a moneymaker when he saw one.

 

Back onto topic, sorry.

[gerblod]

7 hours ago, KingsX said:

 

Looked it up -- you are absolutely right.  Although both guys did monster waves with Mt Fuji in the back.

 

 

Dag, those 19th century Japanese could plagiarize.  Hiroshige must have known a moneymaker when he saw one.

 

Back onto topic, sorry.

Your post cast some doubt in my mind! So I had to go and check. It's fifty years since I first encountered it, so I was no longer convinced I was remembering correctly . 

The Great Wave is a striking image - very powerful and potent.

Looking at the images you've provided, I finally realised how it's achieved. The detail has been simplified and the remaining elements coloured to contrast strongly with each other. I guess that's what makes them so intriguing and attractive to our brain.

Thank you for uploading them.

 

[Japanfox]

On 25/05/2022 at 14:16, gerblod said:

Ah - Birdie = Vardy! 

 

All Leicester City fans worship Vardy. But he will retire in maybe two seasons.

 

Barnes is the better choice of your preferences. He grew up in Leicestershire and is the more exciting player - in my opinion.

It is possible he may play for England one day.

Which player have you chosen?

Yeah there is no Va.  Pronunciation over here in Japan so it's becomes a BA sound in the native language.

 

I'm guessing our friend from Japan is trying to change Bardie to something that's sounds English.  Hence Birdie.

 

Anyways good to know there is s local supporting us.

 

Ps we say Football, not sakka

[gerblod]

19 hours ago, Japanfox said:

Yeah there is no Va.  Pronunciation over here in Japan so it's becomes a BA sound in the native language.

 

I'm guessing our friend from Japan is trying to change Bardie to something that's sounds English.  Hence Birdie.

 

Anyways good to know there is s local supporting us.

 

Ps we say Football, not sakka

 

I think all English as first language speakers have an easy time of it - because it's become the 'lingua franca' globally, obliging non-English people to twist their tongues around our German-French mash-up.

I'd hate to have to learn English as a foreign language with its seriously confusing eccentricities - trying to explain to cousins why Leicester is pronounced Lester (or how folks from Co'ville or Whitik pronounce it  . 

I learned German from an early age so I got a taste of approximation of sounds - V, F and W and the difference between a German and an English 'th'.

I've a friend from Glenfield married a Japanese girl - he retired to live near to Mount Fuji. He has never learned Japanese, which is a shame. But I can envisage how tough it would be to learn.

What's your connection with Japan?

[Japanfox]

On 30/05/2022 at 11:55, gerblod said:

 

I think all English as first language speakers have an easy time of it - because it's become the 'lingua franca' globally, obliging non-English people to twist their tongues around our German-French mash-up.

I'd hate to have to learn English as a foreign language with its seriously confusing eccentricities - trying to explain to cousins why Leicester is pronounced Lester (or how folks from Co'ville or Whitik pronounce it  . 

I learned German from an early age so I got a taste of approximation of sounds - V, F and W and the difference between a German and an English 'th'.

I've a friend from Glenfield married a Japanese girl - he retired to live near to Mount Fuji. He has never learned Japanese, which is a shame. But I can envisage how tough it would be to learn.

What's your connection with Japan?

Living here, working here and the wife is Japanese 

[sheffield_fox]

What a lovely thread. Up the Foxes! 

[filthyfox]

I have see flashes of Shinji type play in Daka.

I think the OP made a good choice.

 

However, Shinji IS my fave player of all time.  He never gave up, never backed down.  The true example of a fighting Fox.