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The prevailing winds and ocean currents in the South Atlantic [1] made it easier for ships going from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope to sail along the South American coast than the African coast. Ships could also reprovision more easily in
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> "Genius" is just practice, and deliberate at that. You don't see it. Actually, in the case of the Beatles we can sort of see it. Half of their first album was covers, and the originals, while nice pop songs, were still a
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When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town [video](youtube.com)
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There are a lot of shareware or shareware-like desktop Mac apps that I have been relying on for many years. The programs continue to be updated regularly and don’t seem to be hobby projects, so I assume the developers are supporting themsel
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After. The tsunami had arrived in several waves over about a twelve-hour period a day and a half earlier. A page in Japanese with the arrival times and peak wave heights at various locations is here: https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp&#
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On the morning of January 17 Japan time, my daughter and grandson were in a park near our home in Yokohama when she noticed that the clouds looked very unusual. She took some photos [1]. We speculated that the clouds might have been affecte
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In case anyone’s interested, below are some Google views of Japanese game centers that don’t look very enticing, at least to me. The first three are in Osaka; the fourth is in Shimbashi, Tokyo. https://www.google.co.jp/maps&
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I agree about the horribleness of Japanese game arcades, but that actually can be an attraction if you’re in the right (or wrong?) frame of mind. I’ve dropped into “game centers” quite a few times over the years—usually just to use the rest
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I’m glad you like them. I came across the books by accident a few years ago when searching for old travel books at the Internet Archive. I wrote about that on the IA’s blog: https://blog.archive.org/2019/01/28&#x2F
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College is, overall, cheaper in Japan than in the U.S., but it isn’t free [1]. You might be thinking of some countries in Europe. The top schools in Japan are indeed quite competitive, but there are also universities that admit almost any h
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The linked article is about “the 1793 meeting of Lord George Macartney and the Qianlong emperor, an infamous embassy in the history of East-West relations.” If anyone is interested in learning more about that diplomatic mission, the officia
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> I’d say it is totally normal in many places even encouraged for people to move between teams and roles in large organizations. My first job out of graduate school, forty years ago, was an office job at a large public university in the
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Looking back on what I read when I was around your age, I think I benefitted less from reading entire books straight through than I did from browsing through magazines and books as my interests led me. I spent a lot of time in libraries, wa
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It sounds as though many of the commenters here are still trying to deal with the first-generation Small Child. My sympathies to all of you. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to acquire a next-generation model, rebranded as Small Grand
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The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/ I delight especially in all the old books.
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> Did any of your translation work involve anime or video game? No. I translated a wide variety of texts for many different clients, but I was never asked to do any anime, manga, or video games. Not being into those things myself, I didn
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Basically mid-twenties wanderlust. I was planning to stay for maybe a year, supporting myself teaching English, before either going on to another country or returning to the U.S. But as soon as I got here I got a strong urge to learn the la
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Another Japanese city that would be quite livable without a car is Osaka. I myself have lived carless in Tokyo and Yokohama for nearly forty years without any problem. About ten years ago, I started going to Osaka several times a year and h
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Thanks. I have read Three Men in a Boat and I enjoyed it. I started reading Tristram Shandy a long time ago but couldn’t get into it; I should give it another try. Speaking of unread books, this year I compiled a list of fifty nineteent
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Life in London, or the day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom in their rambles and sprees through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan. I read this book for the second time this year, the two hundredt
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I don’t know what it sounds like in California, but in Japan, where I live, it’s unmistakable: a very loud buzz followed by a female voice saying firmly—in Japanese, at least on my phone— “It’s an earthquake,” repeated over and over. I’ve e
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> Part of the reason I wanted to learn Japanese is so that I can actually "read" people like Sōseki. More people should give it a try! Learning Japanese—or any language—requires a lot of time and commitment, but being able to r
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Wow. This is really good. Manga/anime fans who want to improve their Japanese can learn a lot from this. I worked as a Japanese-to-English translator for twenty years (until 2005) and wrote and translated some Japanese-language textboo
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Same here. Conversely, I upvote when a comment is especially interesting or informative. I try to avoid both upvoting and downvoting based only on whether I agree or disagree with the comment, though I can’t guarantee that I have stuck to t
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> ...in anime for example these differences are exaggerated far beyond real-world conversational norms. Yes, and not only in anime. The stereotyping of language by gender, occupation, social class, etc. is pervasive in Japanese popular c
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The English version is at [3]. According to the author’s preface to the Russian edition, he wrote it in English at the request of the editor of the Atlantic Monthly , where it was serialized. He then supervised the translation into Russian
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The passage from Kropotkin’s memoir about his prison escape appeared in a Russian textbook I used in college [1]. It was much more interesting than typical foreign language textbook material. Addendum: The Russian version of Kropotkin’s mem
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I'm an academic, on the humanities/social sciences side of things, and I have the impression that a fair proportion of my colleagues are power users as you define it. They don’t do programming per se, but they customize their soft
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> Easiest way to find the work is to work with folks you've worked with before, and build a business based on referral. I agree. I worked as a freelance translator for nearly twenty years, from 1986 to 2005, and almost all of my wor
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Wayback Machine archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20211126144321/https://www.newyo...

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