Talk:miya

EN miya

(originally posted on Equinox's talk page)

Re: diff, I don't suppose you might have a better quote? That text quite bizarrely claims that the Jews have Samurais -- almost certainly a strange editing goof. "Hava negila, hava negimaki"?  :)

If you view these search results for the term "miyas" in that same book and order by pages, it looks like the quotes on page 68 or 69 might be better candidates. Certainly less ethnically confusing, at any rate. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:23, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Feel free to change it. It would be good to use this book because it's quite old (1878) and shows the Anglicised -s plural and no "loan-word italics". Equinox ◑ 19:05, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Looking further into this, I had an "aha" moment regarding Western study of Japan -- in the late 1800s, there was a faction of pseudo-historians in the English-language academic world who convinced themselves somehow that the Japanese were one of the lost tribes of Israel. So I suppose I'm happy to leave things be, since it's become clear to me that the mention of Jews is not a typo or editing goof: the quote you added is what the writer intended, albeit from a horribly confused misunderstanding of reality. Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 20:08, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

I guarantee you that one of these days we will get an angry email about it. Nobody says that quotes in the main entry have to be the most lexicographically interesting ones — I'd move it to the Citations page where the casual reader won't care to look. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:35, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia, the dude quoted is actually one of the major people behind the "Jewish" theory. —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 00:58, 8 January 2020 (UTC)