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11-27-2011, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by epostl View Post
Hi everyone! New to the forum, and I have a little request for help. To give some background, I'm an artist working on some interior pieces for a hotel in Norway. My work plays with the interaction of meanings in images vs. meanings in words.

My question for the forum is this: In English, the word 'delicate' can be used to mean brittle or vulnerable (like an ecosystem), as well as to mean, somewhat archaically, a choice food (like eel or oysters). Does an equivalent or similar word or phrase exist in Japanese, carrying a similar double meaning?

Many thanks in advance!
I do not really understand your question even after reading it three times and that may be why no one has responded so far. Words with double meanings are not all that rare either in English or Japanese. There is nothing so special about it.

Can you expand on what you are trying to accomplish? A couple of more examples might help get responses, too.


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