Funny, here in Shizuoka it was only a 4, but within minutes the phones were unusable. I was happily chatting it up with a friend in Machida (suburb of Tokyo) the whole time, though, on Facebook.
Wanna mention a few? I can think of one word ("manko") I've never heard on TV here. I hear just about every foreigner claiming that "kuso" is a swear word (because it gets translated as "shit"), despite the fact that parents will use the word in front of their kids and even BaikinMan yells "KUSO!" when he's beaten by AnpanMan.
So what's the Japanese version of Carlin's list that you imply exists?
I think you'd better read it again. Darkness404 was saying it was fraudulent to claim such ownership. im_thatoneguy was saying that it saddened him to read that it's the fraudulent claim that would be wrong but that "it was fine to steal the images".
Japanese has just as many ways to express disgust and frustration as any other language. It's just that those words don't have the heavy taboos associated with them which would make them "swear words" (and get bleeped).
Good point. I read once that a real test to see how well a foreign speaker of English knows the language is to see if they use "then" and "than" correctly. A foreign learner will learn the spelling first, and thus will actually pronounce the words differently. If they get to a high enough level of speaking, they will learn to pronounce them the same---and then come the spelling mistakes.
The example (while totally correct) may not convince everyone. I have heard people expand such a sentence to "It is been raining here lately." Just as many people write "could of" instead of "could've". Just try to explain to these people why they're wrong.
Every language has those kinds of arbitrary rules. English has ditched gender, but it sure doesn't lack in arbitrary, crufty complexity when it comes to syntax, irregular plurals, irregular verbs, verbs that mean one thing when they're transitive and another when they're intransitive.
Even Esperanto hasn't escaped from this arbitrary cruft---the "-in-" bullshit, and why does "brusxi" become "brusxo" while "kombi" becomes "kombilo"? If you can't keep that stuff out of a constructed language, could you have any hope of finding a natural language that's free of it?
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Funny, here in Shizuoka it was only a 4, but within minutes the phones were unusable. I was happily chatting it up with a friend in Machida (suburb of Tokyo) the whole time, though, on Facebook.
Apparently the town of Kurihara (population 77,000+) has been completely destroyed. And the fact was in Wikipedia already hours ago.
It wouldn't be a seven-point-anything---it'd be a seven, a weak (zyaku) seven, or a strong (kyou) seven.
And when people say "gay" with no modifiers they universally and unambiguously mean to say that the person being described is "happy".
Hitler was elected, but Lenin? Mao? Kim Il-Sung? Really?
YYYY MM DD is the way that dates are written in the Far East. I don't write my dates in any other format unless forced to these days.
Chrome uses Webkit. The site doesn't look for Webkit---it looks specifically for Safari.
Yeah, it doesn't even say to get n up-to-date browser. It comes right out and says you need Safari or you can't even click through to see the demo.
"The guys who are in trouble for selling 'Blender'" were in trouble for promoting it using copyrighted images, not for selling copies of Blender.
Wanna mention a few? I can think of one word ("manko") I've never heard on TV here. I hear just about every foreigner claiming that "kuso" is a swear word (because it gets translated as "shit"), despite the fact that parents will use the word in front of their kids and even BaikinMan yells "KUSO!" when he's beaten by AnpanMan.
So what's the Japanese version of Carlin's list that you imply exists?
I think you'd better read it again. Darkness404 was saying it was fraudulent to claim such ownership. im_thatoneguy was saying that it saddened him to read that it's the fraudulent claim that would be wrong but that "it was fine to steal the images".
"Stealing" from the public domain? You might want to reread what Darkness404 wrote.
You missed the bit where the software is being promoted using copyrighted artwork.
Japanese has just as many ways to express disgust and frustration as any other language. It's just that those words don't have the heavy taboos associated with them which would make them "swear words" (and get bleeped).
How dare you talk about my sister that way!
...(was she really that bad?)...
Google maps with GPS alone made it worth it for me. There are a lot of winding roads here in Japan, and GPS devices are more expensive than my Desire.
But most people's phones will spend most of their time idle.
Good point. I read once that a real test to see how well a foreign speaker of English knows the language is to see if they use "then" and "than" correctly. A foreign learner will learn the spelling first, and thus will actually pronounce the words differently. If they get to a high enough level of speaking, they will learn to pronounce them the same---and then come the spelling mistakes.
The example (while totally correct) may not convince everyone. I have heard people expand such a sentence to "It is been raining here lately." Just as many people write "could of" instead of "could've". Just try to explain to these people why they're wrong.
Every language has those kinds of arbitrary rules. English has ditched gender, but it sure doesn't lack in arbitrary, crufty complexity when it comes to syntax, irregular plurals, irregular verbs, verbs that mean one thing when they're transitive and another when they're intransitive.
Even Esperanto hasn't escaped from this arbitrary cruft---the "-in-" bullshit, and why does "brusxi" become "brusxo" while "kombi" becomes "kombilo"? If you can't keep that stuff out of a constructed language, could you have any hope of finding a natural language that's free of it?
The "franca" in "lingua franca" doesn't refer to French. It was originally italian for "Frankish Language". Frankish was a Germanic language.
Although something like 75% of the English lexicon comes from French, and even a bit of our syntax.
And stoning? And tar and feathering? Eye for an eye?
I'm glad I live in a civilized country.
A magazine?
Am I lacking imagination here or what? Do you papercut your opponent?
Yeah, and if everyone was forced to carry a firearm, nobody would ever get shot because you'd always know the other party had a weapon, right?
Right?
... lack of law enforcement and corruption in a lot of countries, not Google. Some countries are just more trouble than they are worth.
First they take on corruption in China, now they're taking on corruption in Canada! Thank God for Google!