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On-Yomi: セイ — Kun-Yomi: ちか.う
Koohii stories:
1) [fuaburisu] 21-10-2005(240): This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment. To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. – "the folded words are vows". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an origami for the primitive "fold".
2) [dingomick] 19-12-2007(81): A Japanese wedding tradition is to present each other with origami cranes with their vows written on the BOTTOM.
3) [koohiikun] 11-2-2009(50): Sadako Sasaki vowed to fold 1000 paper cranes and kept her word. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki).
4) [dukelexon] 18-2-2008(15): If you're a sci-fi/fantasy reader –> The Aes Sedai of Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" series were famously forced to take three vows, one of which was to never lie. This was next to pointless, however, as the old broads easily got around it by being so skilled at folding their words that while they never TECHNICALLY lied … the absolute truth that they spoke was still highly deceptive.
5) [radical_tyro] 21-6-2007(13): After cutting himself badly, Socrates vowed never to fold origami again.