🎨 This Art Club has a Problem! (BBC) - Week 7

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Week 7 January 13th 2024
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Vocabulary

この美術部には問題がある Volume 1 Vocabulary Sheet

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Read this today, honestly one of the better chapters so far.

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Yep.

I was amused at the “ghost photography” being just a blurry Collette moving very fast.

I quite like the poster they produced, but I’m perplexed that they spent the whole chapter trying to decide what was a hoax and what wasn’t rather than just asking the Occult Club what their specific research areas were.

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The vocab sheet was getting rather neglected so I put quite a few words in for this week, especially those first few pages.

I’m not familiar with the term UMA (ユーマ).

UMA

As far as I can see even though it as abbreviation for English words (Unidentified Mysterious Animal), UMA seems to be a Japanese term rather than an English term. It comes up in the Wikipedia page for 未確認動物:

未確認動物 - Wikipedia

The term also has a fandom page entry for the manga Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

U.M.A. | Reborn Wiki | Fandom

In English the same concept seems to be referred to as Cryptids:

List of cryptids - Wikipedia

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Yah, it was formed on the pattern of UFO.

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Looking at English and Japanese dictionaries, even though オカルト comes from the English word occult, the Japanese term seems to have a much broader definition that how it is used in English.

The English word mainly refers to the supernatural, paranormal, magical etc. I wouldn’t have thought of occult as including Bigfoot, Nessie, unicorns, UFOs, aliens, Easter Island heads, crop circles or pyramids.

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Interesting, as I would have. :thinking:

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I kind of agree with Micki - in isolation occult brings to mind like images of witches and candles and eye shadow.

However, I’ve seen enough anime that clubbing all this together didn’t raise any eyebrows for me.

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Thanks, that really helped a lot.

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Final week, come read the last chapter :slight_smile:

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