The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept
into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might
translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo. He charges directly at
Hiro, hollering at the top of his lungs...
"Emotional intensity" doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind
of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of
samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word "zanshin" is larded down with a
lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand.
And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same
level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110
percent."
into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might
translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo. He charges directly at
Hiro, hollering at the top of his lungs...
"Emotional intensity" doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind
of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of
samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word "zanshin" is larded down with a
lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand.
And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same
level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110
percent."
( Neal Stephenson )
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