http://www.starchamber.com/2006/07/japanese-ebonics.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:32:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.starchamber.com/2006/07/japanese-ebonics.html#comment-946 Loriland Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:30:46 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=1280#comment-946 I fear posting a comment because there's so little one can really say to add value after looking at the excerpts from that book. It does strike me as odd, though, that the most accessible phrases (to me) in the book "Apple Pie" and "Peach Cobbler" are, in fact, not translated into Japanese. I like to think that those are the only phrases in the book that really have no equivalent concept in Japan, so it wasn't worth going to the trouble of trying to translate them. I fear posting a comment because there’s so little one can really say to add value after looking at the excerpts from that book. It does strike me as odd, though, that the most accessible phrases (to me) in the book “Apple Pie” and “Peach Cobbler” are, in fact, not translated into Japanese. I like to think that those are the only phrases in the book that really have no equivalent concept in Japan, so it wasn’t worth going to the trouble of trying to translate them.

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