TIL! It is easy to forget sometimes that loan words don’t just come from English.
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zabadoh@ani.social 5 months agoAccording 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.
wjs018@ani.social 5 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Wikipedia says in Japanese TV production it’s used to refer to production of about 11-13 episodes.
zabadoh@ani.social 5 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.