# Amazing but trivial coincidences

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**Created:** [August 28, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-but-trivial-coincidences/949682 "2021-08-28T17:41:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-but-trivial-coincidences/949682/108 "2022-01-05T22:04:14Z")

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At the request of @Treppenwitz I cross post this here, from the “interesting random fact…” thread:

The word “pine” has two meanings in English, noun: pine, the tree, and verb: to pine, or yearn for something.

The Japanese translation is one word with the same two meanings! Japanese poets figured this out 1000 years ago.

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across/851674/3372](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across/851674/3372)

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