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• wjs018@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I believe it is short for a quarter of a year. They even use the same word in Japanese, written as クール (ku-ru).

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  • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to ANN, it’s from the French cours meaning an educational course, or series of lessons, or a single lesson or lecture, or a river/stream, or “course” as in “to run its (river-like) course”

    Don’t ask me how that applies to TV shows.

    www.animenewsnetwork.com/…/lexicon.php?id=123

    en.pons.com/translate/french-english/cours

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wikipedia says in Japanese TV production it’s used to refer to production of about 11-13 episodes.

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      • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I know that, but I was referring to how “a series of lessons”, or “a single lesson or lecture”, or “a river/stream” applies to a “production of 11-13 episodes” of a TV show.

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    • wjs018@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL! It is easy to forget sometimes that loan words don’t just come from English.

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