It's like how often the most vehement anti-gay people are actually trying to suppress their own tendencies.
[citation needed]. I'm in favor of gay right as much as (or more) than the next person, but as much as people love to throw that around, I have yet to see any proof behind it other than "it sounds good".
Ye...yes. It is subjective. Of course it is. What, did you want them to write things in their ToS like "If you have pictures that bear a 90% or higher resemblance to a penis using (algorithm) then we reserve the right to ban you."? I think Facebook would agree with good old Justice Stweart: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced... But I know it when I see it..."
Ahh, yes. This argument hinges upon "civilized" being defined as "the western culture I'm from". In China, children (and, occasionally, adults) urinate in the street and nobody cares. And yet, the places where that happens are considered more civilized than places in Europe that 300 years ago that called themselves that.
I remember one of the founding fathers saying something about innocent and guilty men and which should go free. But that was probably just a dream; catching all the criminals to save the children is what matters!
Not only that, you make more MONEY. The DS version is selling for more than the Super Famicom version at used game shops. That's around $30 USD. New on Amazon it's around $40 for the DS. After all, you already made the game - it's almost all profit from there.
Not that there's anything particularly wrong with this, it's just interesting.
Oh, Japan has a LOT of problems; it just so happens that cell phone service is superior to the west's. I could go on for days about the problems this place has; but in the end, any country has them - they're just different here.
Sadly, Microsoft took that crown from Apple around the time Windows XP SP2 came out. Windows has been more consistent, interface-wise, than OS X for a very long time.
Considering Windows has been around longer than OSX, I'd say that's reasonable.
Let's assume I've just opened a document (using the mouse, of course, being more efficient than TABTABTABARROWARROWARROWENTER). You really think moving my at-my-side hand to the keyboard and smacking CTRL-P is more efficient than moving the mouse a couple centimeters and clicking print (where it always is) using muscle memory? Keyboard shortcuts are great, but they're not everything.
The whole system is, well, rather messed up in a lot of the world. Here in Japan, however, I pay the equivalent of $1.50 per month (yes you read that correctly; 300 yen every two months) for unlimited texting. But, I could honestly go on for days about how cell phone service here is miles ahead of your average western country.
I'll agree with you on the Mojave point - a brand-spanking-new Vista installation runs GREAT. It feels really fast, and looks nice. However, for me (over several installs of Vista), it becomes slower and more unstable, faster and more completely than XP or 2000 ever did. After having the install for 3 months, startup time and overall performance just went down the tubes, and the same thing happened the next reformats.
So, yeah, a new install is GREAT. If only it stayed that way.
However you don't see the US still keeping that industry afloat.
Yet today they want to bail out the automobile industry. If we had today's government back then, you can bet for certain that the horse cart industry would be propped up.
Uh, yeah, somebody probably would release a hack. Like the one that already exists for non-steam Spore. So what you're saying is that it's no different?
That's actually a recent change, this month actually. I've been running the client on both my computers for a long time, and only recently has it started giving me this same error. Which is annoying, considering their key-checking for online games is pretty much foolproof, so there's pretty much no need to do this... except to stop me from playing, uh, Half-Life 1 singleplayer on my Dell Mini 9...
Or you keep Steam on your windows parition and don't feel like rebooting to get your TF2 fix, so you load it up via crossover. And let me tell you, it is NOT fast enough for that. Load times are considerably longer than in Windows - Garry's Mod is nearly unplayable due to it taking around 30 minutes to load a map.
I spent time at a university in Tokyo and have had at least one conversation with a Japanese person trying to explain the concept of American/western sarcasm. 'Hiniku' came up and I am aware of its nuances. I agree sarcasm has a very different place in Japanese culture than in American, but I think that to say "there is no word for sarcasm in Japanese" is taking it too far.
There's no word for the western concept of sarcasm. I'm glad your argument has brought you around to agreeing with me.
There are many differences in Japanese and English (and most likely in any languages of different families) and there is rarely a 1:1 relationship between words, but I think calling a term in either language 'untranslatable' or to say one culture or language lacks the concept is the result of exotification.
Not untranslatable, just lacking a single word to encompass the same concept. English doesn't have a single word to represent "killing someone to test a new sword" for example. Same situation.
My knowledge of Japanese is not merely based on dictionaries, but I consider them useful references. They are not often wrong. I might also "give you a hint" that ad hominem attacks and a refusal to state your opinion calmly suggest to me that your argument wouldn't hold up otherwise.
They're not often wrong, but without any kind of frame of reference, you'll end up with misunderstandings.
As well, the internet being filled to the brim with people who are awful at Japanese yet style themselves experts, and considering your first comment was "have you checked a dictionary?", I could only assume you were in this group - assuming I've never even looked in a dictionary and was just spouting nonsense. So, yes, my argument holds up plenty well, I just don't have this kind of time to waste.
I would say you've never spoken to a real Japanese person and tried sarcasm out - the concept is so completely removed from the Western one that you could hardly call it the same thing. That you keep arguing only reinforces that.ãLet me give you a hint: you can't know everything about a language by just looking things up in a dictionary.
And besides, in modern usage, "aoi" is almost exclusively blue, so your point is almost a non sequitur.
(Also, if you're going to check your own AC posts, why not just get a username?)
Yes, I have. It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about, nor have any idea the cultural background to the language. Suffice to say the word means "sarcasm", but it also means things like cynicism, irony, and satire. Those are NOT the same thing, nor does the word mean sarcasm except in a few cases. Look before you leap, buddy.
Oh, yeah, that's possible. Somebody spontaneously gains AUTISM at 65. Happens all the time. Hell, happened to my granny a few years back. We though it was dementia, but nope, the doc said it was late-activation autism. Tragic, really.
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It's like how often the most vehement anti-gay people are actually trying to suppress their own tendencies.
[citation needed]. I'm in favor of gay right as much as (or more) than the next person, but as much as people love to throw that around, I have yet to see any proof behind it other than "it sounds good".
Ye...yes. It is subjective. Of course it is. What, did you want them to write things in their ToS like "If you have pictures that bear a 90% or higher resemblance to a penis using (algorithm) then we reserve the right to ban you."? I think Facebook would agree with good old Justice Stweart: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced... But I know it when I see it..."
Ahh, yes. This argument hinges upon "civilized" being defined as "the western culture I'm from". In China, children (and, occasionally, adults) urinate in the street and nobody cares. And yet, the places where that happens are considered more civilized than places in Europe that 300 years ago that called themselves that.
I remember one of the founding fathers saying something about innocent and guilty men and which should go free. But that was probably just a dream; catching all the criminals to save the children is what matters!
This is how I feel about that.
Not only that, you make more MONEY. The DS version is selling for more than the Super Famicom version at used game shops. That's around $30 USD. New on Amazon it's around $40 for the DS. After all, you already made the game - it's almost all profit from there. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with this, it's just interesting.
Oh, Japan has a LOT of problems; it just so happens that cell phone service is superior to the west's. I could go on for days about the problems this place has; but in the end, any country has them - they're just different here.
Sadly, Microsoft took that crown from Apple around the time Windows XP SP2 came out. Windows has been more consistent, interface-wise, than OS X for a very long time.
Considering Windows has been around longer than OSX, I'd say that's reasonable.
Let's assume I've just opened a document (using the mouse, of course, being more efficient than TABTABTABARROWARROWARROWENTER). You really think moving my at-my-side hand to the keyboard and smacking CTRL-P is more efficient than moving the mouse a couple centimeters and clicking print (where it always is) using muscle memory? Keyboard shortcuts are great, but they're not everything.
The whole system is, well, rather messed up in a lot of the world. Here in Japan, however, I pay the equivalent of $1.50 per month (yes you read that correctly; 300 yen every two months) for unlimited texting. But, I could honestly go on for days about how cell phone service here is miles ahead of your average western country.
I'll agree with you on the Mojave point - a brand-spanking-new Vista installation runs GREAT. It feels really fast, and looks nice. However, for me (over several installs of Vista), it becomes slower and more unstable, faster and more completely than XP or 2000 ever did. After having the install for 3 months, startup time and overall performance just went down the tubes, and the same thing happened the next reformats. So, yeah, a new install is GREAT. If only it stayed that way.
However you don't see the US still keeping that industry afloat.
Yet today they want to bail out the automobile industry. If we had today's government back then, you can bet for certain that the horse cart industry would be propped up.
It's not discontinued; I tried it out last week and it works great if you have a fast enough connection.
But, unlike the service, my account is also discontinued.
Uh, yeah, somebody probably would release a hack. Like the one that already exists for non-steam Spore. So what you're saying is that it's no different?
That's actually a recent change, this month actually. I've been running the client on both my computers for a long time, and only recently has it started giving me this same error. Which is annoying, considering their key-checking for online games is pretty much foolproof, so there's pretty much no need to do this... except to stop me from playing, uh, Half-Life 1 singleplayer on my Dell Mini 9...
Or you keep Steam on your windows parition and don't feel like rebooting to get your TF2 fix, so you load it up via crossover. And let me tell you, it is NOT fast enough for that. Load times are considerably longer than in Windows - Garry's Mod is nearly unplayable due to it taking around 30 minutes to load a map.
There are those who call me... Tim...
One of my original comments was going to be "condescending to the point of ridiculousness". I now regret changing that.
I spent time at a university in Tokyo and have had at least one conversation with a Japanese person trying to explain the concept of American/western sarcasm. 'Hiniku' came up and I am aware of its nuances. I agree sarcasm has a very different place in Japanese culture than in American, but I think that to say "there is no word for sarcasm in Japanese" is taking it too far.
There's no word for the western concept of sarcasm. I'm glad your argument has brought you around to agreeing with me.
There are many differences in Japanese and English (and most likely in any languages of different families) and there is rarely a 1:1 relationship between words, but I think calling a term in either language 'untranslatable' or to say one culture or language lacks the concept is the result of exotification.
Not untranslatable, just lacking a single word to encompass the same concept. English doesn't have a single word to represent "killing someone to test a new sword" for example. Same situation.
My knowledge of Japanese is not merely based on dictionaries, but I consider them useful references. They are not often wrong. I might also "give you a hint" that ad hominem attacks and a refusal to state your opinion calmly suggest to me that your argument wouldn't hold up otherwise.
They're not often wrong, but without any kind of frame of reference, you'll end up with misunderstandings.
As well, the internet being filled to the brim with people who are awful at Japanese yet style themselves experts, and considering your first comment was "have you checked a dictionary?", I could only assume you were in this group - assuming I've never even looked in a dictionary and was just spouting nonsense. So, yes, my argument holds up plenty well, I just don't have this kind of time to waste.
I would say you've never spoken to a real Japanese person and tried sarcasm out - the concept is so completely removed from the Western one that you could hardly call it the same thing. That you keep arguing only reinforces that.ãLet me give you a hint: you can't know everything about a language by just looking things up in a dictionary.
And besides, in modern usage, "aoi" is almost exclusively blue, so your point is almost a non sequitur.
(Also, if you're going to check your own AC posts, why not just get a username?)
Yes, I have. It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about, nor have any idea the cultural background to the language. Suffice to say the word means "sarcasm", but it also means things like cynicism, irony, and satire. Those are NOT the same thing, nor does the word mean sarcasm except in a few cases. Look before you leap, buddy.
Oh, yeah, that's possible. Somebody spontaneously gains AUTISM at 65. Happens all the time. Hell, happened to my granny a few years back. We though it was dementia, but nope, the doc said it was late-activation autism. Tragic, really.
They don't even have a word for it in their language. It's not a part of their culture. So, yeah, naturally...
So you mean blatantly lying and hope people pick it up from context alone?
I know people that do that, in real life. It's just annoying and unfunny.
Nobody likes people who do that.
Nobody.
to cover up the fact that he's already decided they weren't going to employ me
Whether or not that's true, your comment certainly would have cemented him into that position. Self-fulfilling prophecy indeed.