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brin_bellway--how diversity keeps us from missing the obvious
[cw: illness, (arguably) infohazards in link]
[Substack; Wayback] (by Scott Alexander)
...are you *sure* it doesn't just literally mean "the sensation of having a cold, but only in your soul and not in your body".
(...also, are there any records of this term that *don't* trace back to this one book. okay, yes, I haven't tried other writing systems, but *zero* relevant Japanese webpages written in romaji?
update: a bit of tinkering with Google Translate gets me a hospital that has it in its name or something (and has poor reviews!), but still not much else.)
[cw: illness, (arguably) infohazards in link]
[Substack; Wayback] (by Scott Alexander)
As part of GlaxoSmithKline’s marketing work, they replaced utsubyo with a new idea, kokoro no kaze, “cold of the soul”. This was supposed to mean that depression was a minor illness (like a cold), something everyone got occasionally (like a cold), and something that was purely biological and could/should be controlled with medication (like a cold).
...are you *sure* it doesn't just literally mean "the sensation of having a cold, but only in your soul and not in your body".
(...also, are there any records of this term that *don't* trace back to this one book. okay, yes, I haven't tried other writing systems, but *zero* relevant Japanese webpages written in romaji?
update: a bit of tinkering with Google Translate gets me a hospital that has it in its name or something (and has poor reviews!), but still not much else.)
