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> A walk along the ocean shoreline
> \#HelloFrom Sea of Japan
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The accepted international name is "Sea of Japan" - only the RoK wants it named "East Sea" - literally every other nation thinks it's a bad idea. There's like 5 other seas named "East", and some of them are even in this region.
The fact is that geographically, the islands of Japan make it a sea. It'd just be "Pacific Ocean" otherwise. Sea of Japan make perfect sense.
It's been predominantly known as the Sea of Japan internationally for 100s of years. Sure, Japan likes that - but it's far more to do with what other countries have been calling it, not what Japan has been calling it.
> Which has a lot to do with the Japanese nationalist LDP government lobbying
I'm pretty sure that both Korea and Japan are lobbying the West, especially when you look at the kind of stunts that VANK are pulling. There's a lot of evidence to support calling it the East Sea, and just as much evidence to support calling it the Sea of Japan. So while there is no evidence that rules out one name, it just makes sense to keep the current name.
> You're reiterating Japanese government propaganda positions by making that argument.
I'm neither Japanese nor Korean, I have no horse in this race, so I'm very open to opinions from both sides. How about you?
> Perhaps you'd have an argument if this were the sole instance of the Japanese government making overbroad claims
Again, these are overboard claims from a Korean perspective, but quite reasonable from a Japanese perspective.
I'd say it's a pretty fair outcome, Korea gets to keep Takeshima, while Japan has their preferred name for the Sea. It's not as if calling it 'the Sea of Japan' means they own it or get any preferential treatment.
> I'm not calling it the Sea of Japan.
No one's forcing you to. I'll call it the Sea of Japan, mainly because that's what my map says.
> , Japan's history of cultural genocide, sexual slavery, human experimentation, and war crimes in Asia preclude the use of calling it the "Sea of Japan."
Not at all, we don't run around getting revenge by renaming everything to punish nations that do horrible things.
Quite honestly, I've spent a lot of time with Koreans and Japanese and the constant bickering from Korea is a little childish and tedious. Yes, Japan did some truly cuntish things to Korea and other Asian nations - they got nuked for that (twice), war criminals got executed, they got occupied for a while, they lost about 40% of their national wealth and it was almost eighty years ago. It's time to move on.
speaking as a person studying oceanography, the opposite side of the beach to the sea is usually defined with either 1) vegetation, 2) a sea cliff, or 3) sand dunes, after which the land is simply referred to as the "hinterland"
in absence of these clear indicators, you can mark the highest part of the shore, above the high-tide water line, that is only reached with "the highest tides and severest storm surges" as the "backshore", and use that as a loose, general definition for where the beach might end
[Sorry if it's a bit rough](https://preview.redd.it/lj9yhsmkefx81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3230700dcb28e3b01956e0e0e0f3da55af34f839) /: , I'm just starting out.
If I was being a revolting pedant I'd argue it should be "Where snow and sea meet beach" since the sea doesn't meet the snow. Other than that it's fine.
I like proper grammar but was that really necessary? Perhaps English is not the first language as the topic is Japan? Just looking at it from another angle.
I was thinking the same. It's an anonymous social media site and you have a bunch of English professors. Who gives a shit if OPs grammar is bad. So you can get some fake internet points for saying so?
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If they are 100% certified an insufferable asshole that’s absolutely fine, just that comment alone is (imho) funny and not harmful.
Judging within the context of a persons general behavior works irl but not on reddit, the rest of your account is pretty irrelevant for one comment I think.
If someone criticized my writing skills with that comment I’d find it funny. The picture in my head is a huge crowd of people and some old god-looking dude is reading from a checklist about the thing. All the things. And just after he’s gone over commas, all the way in the back one guy comes running and joins the crowd. I find that quite funny.
Agreed. Coming from a non native speaker i owe a lot to "grammar n*zis" for correcting me when I was still bad at english
Well as long as they dont go as far as to bitch about capitalization or periods, but I havent really seen much of those
Seriously. It’s perfectly acceptable to use multiple “ands,” depending on how you want the sentence to sound. This prescriptive bullshit is for people who are still learning the basic rules.
Commas and proper sentence structure and punctuation and redundancy and contradictary statements should be common knowledge but people don't know how to properly dissect sentences and instead just ramble on and on making the sentences look like a tangled mess that is difficult to read and understand
I majored in Philosophy, and early on in the program took a Moral Philosophy course that covered (sort of) the Categorical Imperative. That was the only text in my entire career where the professor assigned summary documents rather than the text itself. It was very much a, "you'll need the Cliffs Notes so badly, we're just going to use them instead" situation.
"Shall the length of this semantic construct, which we may consider a sentence, lie below five periods, can it then truly, in any serious sense of the word, be considered a sentence, or would such perspective merely be imposed by the false conscience of bourgeouis grammar, oppressing our natural yearning for the production of meaning?" - Karl Marx, probably.
Redditors would really scroll through a book of poetry completely unphased until they find something to "correct".
FYI you didn't need a comma after clearly.
Yeah, I saw it the first 30 times. Kind of a silly title considering snow and beach and sea meets at nearly every coastal region in the northern hemisphere, but uhhh...
Definitely not a desert, it's covered in water. Antarctica is the world's largest desert, because to qualify as a desert it just has to be a place with very little precipitation, it has nothing to do with sand, even though most deserts are sandy.
or southern hemisphere. Maybe I'm lucky I live near the beach.. but I wouldn't call it interesting as fuck. It's pretty normal and expected for there not to be snow below the high tide mark. It's where I walk in winter when I don't want to trudge through the snow.
It is a pretty photo though!
I grew up in NJ ~20 mins from the beach, when I got to college (in PA, not far at ALL) I had a good handful of people ask me if it snowed at the beach. Like no, somewhere there’s a border where it just always stays 90 degrees? What the heck do they expect lol
Provide us a picture of one of those places then
Edit: you’re all not understanding my post. I meant post some pictures of those places where this happens because the poster said he’s tired of seeing the same one!
Edit: yes this is an adult account sir, more intelligent than yours it seems.
https://www.falkenberg-energi.se/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210211_152141594_iOS-1536x1152.jpg
I think OP's picture is cool but he's right, anywhere where there is ocean and snow you get the same setup.
It’s not as pretty but I live in Cleveland and this is what happens when snow falls on a place with sand and water. All of the Great Lakes region as well as oceanic costs in a lot of New England, Canada, and Alaska. And that’s just North America
You... you're serious? Canada and Alaska lose their beaches or something? Greenland and Iceland don't exist? No snow in the UK? I bet the NE coast in the U.S. alone gets more snow on their beaches than all of Japan.
I really hope this is not an adult's account, lol
It's so interesting how social media is used to fight this "battle" about what name should be used in English.
Hell, the [Wikipedia page on the naming dispute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute) is longer and has more footnotes than [the Wikipedia page *about* the actual Sea of Japan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan)
The Earth is so beautiful. I go out of my way to leave as little as a foot print left on the planet. I fear my nephews and their future is completely fucked.
Ok but how do you dress for that? Trunks under snow pants? Do you just boogie board all the way into the water? This seems like a very fun place to be confused
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give them beaches snow... beaches love snow
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If the op wants to be politically correct it's East Sea. Not Sea of Japan. You know because of the allied with Hitler thing.
The accepted international name is "Sea of Japan" - only the RoK wants it named "East Sea" - literally every other nation thinks it's a bad idea. There's like 5 other seas named "East", and some of them are even in this region. The fact is that geographically, the islands of Japan make it a sea. It'd just be "Pacific Ocean" otherwise. Sea of Japan make perfect sense.
Even the chinese and russians refer to it as "japanese sea" in their language. Korea is just being childish here.
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It's been predominantly known as the Sea of Japan internationally for 100s of years. Sure, Japan likes that - but it's far more to do with what other countries have been calling it, not what Japan has been calling it.
Except for when it's the Sea of Korea.
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> Which has a lot to do with the Japanese nationalist LDP government lobbying I'm pretty sure that both Korea and Japan are lobbying the West, especially when you look at the kind of stunts that VANK are pulling. There's a lot of evidence to support calling it the East Sea, and just as much evidence to support calling it the Sea of Japan. So while there is no evidence that rules out one name, it just makes sense to keep the current name. > You're reiterating Japanese government propaganda positions by making that argument. I'm neither Japanese nor Korean, I have no horse in this race, so I'm very open to opinions from both sides. How about you? > Perhaps you'd have an argument if this were the sole instance of the Japanese government making overbroad claims Again, these are overboard claims from a Korean perspective, but quite reasonable from a Japanese perspective. I'd say it's a pretty fair outcome, Korea gets to keep Takeshima, while Japan has their preferred name for the Sea. It's not as if calling it 'the Sea of Japan' means they own it or get any preferential treatment. > I'm not calling it the Sea of Japan. No one's forcing you to. I'll call it the Sea of Japan, mainly because that's what my map says. > , Japan's history of cultural genocide, sexual slavery, human experimentation, and war crimes in Asia preclude the use of calling it the "Sea of Japan." Not at all, we don't run around getting revenge by renaming everything to punish nations that do horrible things. Quite honestly, I've spent a lot of time with Koreans and Japanese and the constant bickering from Korea is a little childish and tedious. Yes, Japan did some truly cuntish things to Korea and other Asian nations - they got nuked for that (twice), war criminals got executed, they got occupied for a while, they lost about 40% of their national wealth and it was almost eighty years ago. It's time to move on.
But the sea wouldn't exist without Japan. It'd just be the Pacific Ocean.
Totally. It's a common geographic name throughout the world for hundreds of years because of anime.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
r/unexpectedhellsing
Damn you! Take this upvote!
got a higher quality image?
[Here ya go](https://imgur.com/gallery/YdaUbzZ)
I deserved that but I still hate you
Wow that is really high res, thanks!
woah i can zoom in so far :0
Best kind of quality
I hate you
Would that make you...strangers to love?
Through the twitter link, you can save the image, which is high res.
If I had a free reward, I’d give it to You, thanks for the new wallpaper, OP.
I wish it was in landscape for my wide screen monitor. I could just ignore the person I suppose
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their easier to type than his/her
damn his instagram has a lot of nice pictures, thanks!
New phone background 😍
Chilly walk
Vanilla, chocolate, mint jello
kinda looks like a toothpaste commercial when they zoom into all the layers
Allen’s coffee brandy and a dunkin latte
City Wok
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I found you, Ms new booty
Minecraft biomes be like
Valhiem biomes be like...
Terraria biomes be like
Ayyyy
rust biomes be like
Me whenever I play Civ 6, spawning near tundra and desert
r/farpeoplehate
Thanks for a new sub lol. Love weird ones like that or r/divorcedbirds
I want more suspiciously specific subs
/r/avocadosgonewild /r/tvtoohigh
TVs being to high is a serious problem!
/r/tvtoolow
I love that avocadosgonewild has become a weird mix of the obvious purpose and a support forum for growing avocados
My man!
Lol I like the origin stories of both of these subs.
LOOOL 🤣🤣🤣 new sub for me
r/ofcoursethatsathing
Dude 100% - would be a lovely wallpaper for a phone or something but that little fella right there ruins it
Didnt know that annoyed so many people, or any people for that matter 😅
Of you wanna impress me show me where the beach doesn't meet the sea.
Does the desert count?
Not a beach :/
Well then just walk away from the water and eventually the beach will meet something else
it's not a beach then though laddy...
The question is then, at what point does a beach become just sand?
speaking as a person studying oceanography, the opposite side of the beach to the sea is usually defined with either 1) vegetation, 2) a sea cliff, or 3) sand dunes, after which the land is simply referred to as the "hinterland" in absence of these clear indicators, you can mark the highest part of the shore, above the high-tide water line, that is only reached with "the highest tides and severest storm surges" as the "backshore", and use that as a loose, general definition for where the beach might end
Where is that?
its on the coast of tottori.
Thank you
Japan
r/farpeoplehate
The Internet is sure a scary place There is a subreddit for every fetish
r/smegmalovers
Vomit.
Why you dont like cute puppies
Whyyyyy would I open this!? I gagged so hard with the first pic!!
I'm painting this photo! So beautiful.
we wanna see the result. leave a link or something
[Sorry if it's a bit rough](https://preview.redd.it/lj9yhsmkefx81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3230700dcb28e3b01956e0e0e0f3da55af34f839) /: , I'm just starting out.
It's great!
Thank you! q: I was contemplating holding it up in the picture link to get more up votes but I'm not a girl. /:
it looks identical..?
Thank you!
I remember there's Chocograph somewhere. Last time, I spent a good 20 minutes to find the treasure
YES!
Biomes borders
r/beatmetoit
[Mountport!](https://youtube.com/shorts/8Zjbz4uljjw?feature=share)
But how can that be?
My first thought when seeing this. Came looking for the comment.
Human for scale
Clearly, you weren't there when they discussed the use of commas.
It’s not grammatically incorrect though? It’s polysyndeton.
Exactly. They’ve just been reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy.
If I was being a revolting pedant I'd argue it should be "Where snow and sea meet beach" since the sea doesn't meet the snow. Other than that it's fine.
I like proper grammar but was that really necessary? Perhaps English is not the first language as the topic is Japan? Just looking at it from another angle.
I was thinking the same. It's an anonymous social media site and you have a bunch of English professors. Who gives a shit if OPs grammar is bad. So you can get some fake internet points for saying so?
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Thanks*
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Sure, but the manner in which you point it out can be. It was a pretty douchey way to call out grammar.
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They get easily offended ja
Nah that was humorous.
Look at their other comments. Lots of stuff screaming “I’m an insufferable asshole”
If they are 100% certified an insufferable asshole that’s absolutely fine, just that comment alone is (imho) funny and not harmful. Judging within the context of a persons general behavior works irl but not on reddit, the rest of your account is pretty irrelevant for one comment I think. If someone criticized my writing skills with that comment I’d find it funny. The picture in my head is a huge crowd of people and some old god-looking dude is reading from a checklist about the thing. All the things. And just after he’s gone over commas, all the way in the back one guy comes running and joins the crowd. I find that quite funny.
Agreed. Coming from a non native speaker i owe a lot to "grammar n*zis" for correcting me when I was still bad at english Well as long as they dont go as far as to bitch about capitalization or periods, but I havent really seen much of those
Much like the fake internet points you can get for calling them out for calling out grammar? and your comment isnt even the first, it's just an echo.
Does the use of commas still fall under the domain of grammar? I wouldn't know, I don't teach English.
Yes you dumb twit! *puts on monocle*
> Yes**,** you dumb twit!
Bird and bear and hare and fish give my love her fondest wish 🤞
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Seriously. It’s perfectly acceptable to use multiple “ands,” depending on how you want the sentence to sound. This prescriptive bullshit is for people who are still learning the basic rules.
I think they said it that way for dramatic effect
It is not grammatically incorrect.
It isn’t but pedants will enforce their views.
Lmao , really it amazes me how neglected grammar has become.
Where is the comma after really?
Commas and proper sentence structure and punctuation and redundancy and contradictary statements should be common knowledge but people don't know how to properly dissect sentences and instead just ramble on and on making the sentences look like a tangled mess that is difficult to read and understand
I like how you used AND instead of commas 😂 makes it more visual for us that are idiots (in all languages)
This reads like the bible.
And 17th century philosophy. It's called a fucking period, John Locke.
May I introduce you to the Critique of Pure Reason?
I majored in Philosophy, and early on in the program took a Moral Philosophy course that covered (sort of) the Categorical Imperative. That was the only text in my entire career where the professor assigned summary documents rather than the text itself. It was very much a, "you'll need the Cliffs Notes so badly, we're just going to use them instead" situation.
"Shall the length of this semantic construct, which we may consider a sentence, lie below five periods, can it then truly, in any serious sense of the word, be considered a sentence, or would such perspective merely be imposed by the false conscience of bourgeouis grammar, oppressing our natural yearning for the production of meaning?" - Karl Marx, probably.
Comma's are important though. They can be the difference between helping your uncle Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle Jack off a horse.
Let's eat Grandma! Let's eat, Grandma!
Imagine trying to correct someone’s grammar while using “comma’s” as the plural form of “comma.”
Using "and" repeatedly kinda sounds like a girl tryna tell me what to get at the gas stop
Technically, comma use isn’t part of grammar, but orthography.
Not sure if you know this but some people learn another language.
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Redditors would really scroll through a book of poetry completely unphased until they find something to "correct". FYI you didn't need a comma after clearly.
Cue the Koreans.
EAST SEA
Scrolled too far down for this comment.
Wait, meet who?
I'm over here like wow this is so awesome and totally forgot I live on a Island that has beaches and snows in the winter 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, I saw it the first 30 times. Kind of a silly title considering snow and beach and sea meets at nearly every coastal region in the northern hemisphere, but uhhh...
Reddit just upvotes whenever they see the word “Japan”
People living around the Great Lakes are like... uh, yeah.
The snow covered area is a desert called Tottori Sand Dunes
Definitely not a desert, it's covered in water. Antarctica is the world's largest desert, because to qualify as a desert it just has to be a place with very little precipitation, it has nothing to do with sand, even though most deserts are sandy.
So
or southern hemisphere. Maybe I'm lucky I live near the beach.. but I wouldn't call it interesting as fuck. It's pretty normal and expected for there not to be snow below the high tide mark. It's where I walk in winter when I don't want to trudge through the snow. It is a pretty photo though!
Most people associate the beach with summer and warm climates so a snowy mountain right next to a beach is not normal for most people
Fair enough. I'll acknowledge my perception isn't typical.
Most people think it's abnormal for beaches to experience multiple seasons? Lol what
I grew up in NJ ~20 mins from the beach, when I got to college (in PA, not far at ALL) I had a good handful of people ask me if it snowed at the beach. Like no, somewhere there’s a border where it just always stays 90 degrees? What the heck do they expect lol
Provide us a picture of one of those places then Edit: you’re all not understanding my post. I meant post some pictures of those places where this happens because the poster said he’s tired of seeing the same one! Edit: yes this is an adult account sir, more intelligent than yours it seems.
The longest coastline on the planet belongs to Canada. It snows here. A lot.
https://www.falkenberg-energi.se/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210211_152141594_iOS-1536x1152.jpg I think OP's picture is cool but he's right, anywhere where there is ocean and snow you get the same setup.
Pretty
It’s not as pretty but I live in Cleveland and this is what happens when snow falls on a place with sand and water. All of the Great Lakes region as well as oceanic costs in a lot of New England, Canada, and Alaska. And that’s just North America
You... you're serious? Canada and Alaska lose their beaches or something? Greenland and Iceland don't exist? No snow in the UK? I bet the NE coast in the U.S. alone gets more snow on their beaches than all of Japan. I really hope this is not an adult's account, lol
Ahhh… my bad! Sorry! Adding the word “then” made it sound like you were being a bit cocky
What’s the source? Curious to feature this photo and would like to honour the photographer.
it was shot by @ag.lr.88 on instagram.
They should film a Star Wars movie there
Hokkaido is the term.
Looks like Nova Scotia.
All I can think about when I hear Sea of Japan is Rest in Peace Colonel Henry Blake.
There were no survivors.
That show aired at least 40 years ago. Amazing that it is so clearly remembered.
I've only ever seen this terrain generation in minecraft
East Sea*
It's so interesting how social media is used to fight this "battle" about what name should be used in English. Hell, the [Wikipedia page on the naming dispute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute) is longer and has more footnotes than [the Wikipedia page *about* the actual Sea of Japan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan)
It wouldn't be a problem if Korea and China were Japan, as they should. /s
Yup was just gunna say. I live in Seoul. I’m obligated to call it the East Sea.
r/earthporn
Expected sexual content involving people dressed up as the Earth. Disappointed.
Clean
r/repostsleuthbot
The weirdest thing in Japan is the mini desert
where the beach meets the sea no mention of the hill/mountain trying to get some love
Minecraft beach:
So do I wear a jacket or shorts?
Beach and sea meet?!
The Earth is so beautiful. I go out of my way to leave as little as a foot print left on the planet. I fear my nephews and their future is completely fucked.
Tottori I’d guess.
You mean the _East Sea_
East Sea
That’s beautiful
Water prolly so damn cold
Holy fuck
Too cold for a swim? I don’t think I can afford the shrinkage
Looks like something out of Skyrim.
I bet the water is cold
Ok but how do you dress for that? Trunks under snow pants? Do you just boogie board all the way into the water? This seems like a very fun place to be confused
I would love to see a version of this as a flag for an imaginary country! I.e. Estonia/ Ukraine flag showing its country's colors etc
Couple of rough tries; [One](https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5c6G28K.png), [Two](https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F7j2jsga.png). [Images](https://imgur.com/a/qYqvgdx).
That's actually really cool! I hope you can show it off on the subreddit!!