Danbooru

[REJECTED] Tag alias: screen_door -> shouji

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-1 because a shouji is a specific type of Japanese architecture that uses translucent paper on wooden latices, whereas "screen door" is an ambiguous phrase that can refer to any kind of door with a screen on it -- for example, where I live, screen door means a swinging (as opposed to sliding), aluminum storm door with a openable glass window and a wire window screen.

Screen door is defined as "a door consisting of a wire net with very small holes stretched over a frame, designed to allow air but not insects to move through", and shouji simply isn't it.

tapnek said:

Why not turn it into an implication instead?

Because as stated above, "screen door" is can be understood to mean hinged wire mesh doors like in post #2049432, which are not shouji.

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