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I wish DeepL would make a (real) mobile app, their machine translations are much better but its web only and it doesnt have all the nice extras like photo text scanning.
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Whatever translation app my students use to "write" their final papers is not good.
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Aug 18, 2021 05:26
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Yeah they're still total dogshit for extended discourse, idiomatic language, etc. I really only plan on using Google interpretation if I am in a completely hopeless situation for communication.
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Aug 18, 2021 07:09
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Hello thread, I have a present for you. http://cgibin.erols.com/bdwilner/.../japan/index.htm
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Aug 18, 2021 15:51
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no thank you
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Aug 18, 2021 15:54
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eszett engma posted:Hello thread, I have a present for you.
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Aug 19, 2021 04:29
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Uses slurs unironically and calls the written language primitive, checks out
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Aug 19, 2021 04:41
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The Japanese have stolen nearly every aspect of their culture from China
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Aug 19, 2021 06:08
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eszett engma posted:Hello thread, I have a present for you. i ain't reading that disasterpiece
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Aug 19, 2021 06:13
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Man I’m sorry I slept on this earlier. First paragraph: “Exotic Japan” “We learned not only that standard preconceived notions are untrue, but also that authoritative "corrections" of those notions are often equally untrue!” “Thanks are extended to (ZhongWen.com) for their nonpareil library of online Chinese character GIFs and to JASC Paint Shop Pro for helping me to Japanize them.” Simultaneously using “nonpareil” in casual writing and using loving Corel Paint to manually change Chinese characters to Japanese versions, what a wild drat ride. LimburgLimbo fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 19, 2021 |
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Aug 19, 2021 07:03
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quote:Of course, Japan has its share of linguistic ethnocentrism: in convenience and fast-food stores, they keep talking at us in Japanese—seemingly out of harmless, ingrained politeness—though they know we don’t understand a word. My, the Japanese are such creatures of habit! quote:Amid this painstakingly organized demi-chaos, they have subjugated the will of the individual to the will of the collective, though in brutally efficient and organized fashion—like so many Borg. lol 
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Aug 19, 2021 07:39
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an american seeing good manners and it being so alien they compare it to star trek is p funny
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Aug 19, 2021 07:46
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I, too, prefer to have people assume I can't speak a language because of my appearance and just grunt at me like I was an animal!
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Aug 19, 2021 09:19
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I like these docomo bike share bicycles it's better than walking
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Aug 19, 2021 16:47
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Bike shares own and are cool. Tokyo's implementation of them is pretty limited tho, which is too bad, but then Tokyo is really not built that well for bikes most places, unless you're able to go at near-car speeds on the road.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:58
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the docomo coverage in tokyo doesn't seem particularly limited to me: and yeah tokyo doesn't have bike infrastructure, but it does have bike culture and the drivers are mostly aware and considerate. it's been the better part of a decade since i used anything other than a bike inside of ~10km on a regular basis and it's fine.
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Aug 20, 2021 01:57
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RIP Sonny Chiba. 
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Aug 20, 2021 02:21
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Did every single woman in the late 90s and early 2000s look like Monica Lewinsky? man I swear
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Aug 20, 2021 19:49
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Stringent posted:the docomo coverage in tokyo doesn't seem particularly limited to me: Yeah I guess my impression was either just wrong or that they expanded a lot in the last couple of years, because I did not realize there were even that many. Looking at more pictures looks like a lot of the stations are more out of the way which probably contributed to my mistake there. Nonetheless it's not as common as I'm used to now; looks like Tokyo has 870 ports and 9,200 bikes, whereas my city of 2.7mm people has more stations and almost as many bikes (believe this # is also actual directly pulled data and actual active bikes, not inclusive of ones in repair et al). Taipei too, is nuts, with 25k bikes in one system , alongside the co-existing new 2.0 system they're rolling out, mostly confined to just around Taipei U now, which has another 3,800 bikes. Compared to that Tokyo bike share always seemed quite inconvenient and limited. I also commuted exclusively by bike for over a year last I was in Tokyo but there's def issues for a general populace; some places the sidewalks are too crowded and the roads iffy for normal people who want to cruise along slowly. I never had problems in the road on a road bike and love it but it's harder for a broader crowd of people outside of more suburban areas imo. You should visit Taiwan when things open up; the bike share is really great and fun to cruise around on.
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Aug 23, 2021 20:53
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i've been wanting to go to taiwan for ages to eat all that street food stuff they got on youtube.
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Aug 24, 2021 02:53
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eszett engma posted:Hello thread, I have a present for you. Thank you for this gift. It made me miss Japan but also provide content such as quote:Cheryl remarks to me that the Japanese seem to have very yellow teeth, and I must admit that this comment is lost on me. Yukiko next tells us that the Japanese follow Shinto when happy (since Shinto favors the here) but Buddhism when sad (since Buddhism addresses the hereafter). It seems quite inappropriate to pick and choose one’s religion based upon the conveniences of the moment, particularly since Shinto is a primitive animistic faith and Buddhism is an advanced polytheistic system. The discussion of the old and the new also touches upon the troubles at the Russian embassy, which we pass: it seems that youngsters frequently picket, based on the fact that Russia occupies one or more of the Kuril Islands north of Japan, and that a network of police spotters is positioned to detect trouble early and secure the embassy when necessary. We again happen past the Tokyo Tower, which is overrun with schoolchildren, who stick heads out of windows and hang from the rafters by their prehensile tails. (Well, perhaps that’s an exaggeration.) The people on the street carry parasols (umbrellas, actually) in the fierce sunlight but do not wear sunglasses. Yukiko tells us that sunglasses are frowned upon. Later, another guide will give us a bullshit explanation about how the superior Japanese eye is not disturbed by brilliant light, whereas the inferior Caucasian eye is photosensitive. quote:The shrine also features stacks of huge sake barrels that are donated to the gods, who evidently like to get drunk. To be fair though, the writing was very precise and had perfect grammar, even if the guy is a complete goon.
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If I had read that stuff anywhere else, I would've sworn up and down that it was deliberate bait.
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Aug 24, 2021 07:07
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Dear lord I didn't realize there was a second and further pages.quote:Today is our free day in Tokyo. Up early, I discover that this country also has its assholes: trying to convert ¥95 in loose change to a ¥100 coin that the vending machines will accept, the desk clerk staunchly refuses—despite my puppy dog eyes—unless I cough up the missing ¥5 (4 cents). You would never see that in America. Just for kicks, we take the hour-long Yamanote ride all around Tokyo to watch the sleepy Japanese commute to work. (Actually, the Yamanote only loops around the city center; it seems that many foreign cities’ subway networks include this type of central loop line, plus numerous diametrical lines that intersect the loop twice.) I’m getting used to having to continually undo my shirt and unzip my passport belt to extricate the JR passes to show to the station attendants. Some actually open the passes and check the date, while others just wave us through. (We always have to show our passes on the way out of the station, since the automatic turnstile scanner always rejects our tickets—which are evidently configured in "foreigner mode.") Many businessmen on the train have earplugs or Walkmen, and everyone seems to have established a quiet psychological bubble around himself. I chat briefly with one gentleman on the subway, largely by scratching out kanji at a fifth-grade level in my notebook, but most of the people do not condescend to try to communicate. (This stands in such stark contrast to America, where people often go out of their way to assist foreigners.) This is a goldmine EDIT: quote:I slip into a manga shop to hunt for a sexy comic. We have heard that these are big business in Japan. It takes no time flat for me to find a book-sized comic that features the most explicit scenes of white girls having physical fun with macho white men, stern Japanese masters, even an American Indian chief. The comic is skillfully slipped into a brown paper cover and into my knapsack. I’m really not much of a fan of explicit magazines, but I had to buy one here as part of my sociological research. Last quip. I'll stop now. i fly airplanes fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 08:27
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Don't doxx me.
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Aug 24, 2021 16:00
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quote:Back on the train, there are more lifeless people. Even if they’re full of personality, all conversation seems to grind to a halt as soon as they set foot on the train. If Cheryl and I laugh, they stare at us. quote:Finally—and most surprisingly—we see two dangerous-looking black American homeboys hanging out. They are discernible at quite a distance by the steady stream of "gently caress" and "mother fucker" issuing from their mouths.
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If you want to know what ol' Bruce is up to, now: https://coconutcreeknews.net/helpful-neighbor-rips-off-blind-man-p460-169.htm
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Aug 24, 2021 17:27
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Holy poo poo that actually is him, isn't it. ...aaand it's in Florida because of course.
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Aug 24, 2021 17:40
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What do we even call that... a "proto-Karen"? I don't know
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Toshimo posted:If you want to know what ol' Bruce is up to, now: https://coconutcreeknews.net/helpful-neighbor-rips-off-blind-man-p460-169.htm Wasn't expecting that but I'm not surprised either.
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eszett engma posted:Hello thread, I have a present for you. The guy is a huge goon and scumbag but his text is also way more interesting to read than the typical anodyne modern travel blog. Definitely didn't expect him to be ripping off a blind guy. I bet he rationalizes it as "being paid for his time helping the guy" or some bullshit.
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Aug 25, 2021 17:43
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Yeah, this kinda writing seems to be more or less gone from the net nowadays. I will always treasure https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/ which I think I got from this or another Japan thread
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Saladman posted:The guy is a huge goon and scumbag but his text is also way more interesting to read than the typical anodyne modern travel blog. Definitely didn't expect him to be ripping off a blind guy. I bet he rationalizes it as "being paid for his time helping the guy" or some bullshit. I'm just really curious to know what happened to the wife in the ensuing 17 years before the blind guy thing. Maybe that Japan trip was the death knell of their relationship.
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Saladman posted:The guy is a huge goon and scumbag but his text is also way more interesting to read than the typical anodyne modern travel blog. Grim Up North posted:Yeah, this kinda writing seems to be more or less gone from the net nowadays. I wonder why this is. Travel was a lot more expensive 20 years ago, international long-haul flights were a big deal, so maybe you had to travel with quite more purpose. As the internet and social media grew we moved more towards pictures and videos instead of stories? I think there is a bit of something lost with the Lonely Planet way of travelling before the internet took off. Nowadays when people go somewhere, they know exactly where they're going and how they're getting there, and they're sharing everything to Instagram. Or maybe this is nostalgia from getting old, idk
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I was in Japan the year this guy visited. It was different 20 years ago, yeah, but not ancient. Digital cameras were around, MP3 players were in their pre-iPod days, my J-Phone even had a camera, I also used Paint Shop Pro, and these gay forums existed. That website would have read just as goony back then as it does now. Overall I'm not a huge fan of social media, but I think it has made Japan seem more accessible, and less exotic, for a lot of people. I'm glad these "deer in headlights" kind of trip reports have gone away.
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Grim Up North posted:I will always treasure https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/ which I think I got from this or another Japan thread If anyone hasn't read this, you really should. In a better world the author never would've stopped, or at least would've continued writing about other places.
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Heres a travel blog that has lots stuff from Japan that I really like  https://motorcycleparadise.net/ Travel is definitely easier and its easy to go Japan even if you dont speak the language, 10/10 when it feels like some tourists in Shinjuku for example are treating it as an amusement park lmao
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Aug 26, 2021 04:15
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The concept of shame does not apply to foreigners walking down the streets getting smashed drinking chu-hais
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Shinjuku is an amusement park.
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It's better manners to sit and streetdrink* ** *parkdrink **goons know
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i fly airplanes posted:I wonder why this is. Travel was a lot more expensive 20 years ago, international long-haul flights were a big deal, so maybe you had to travel with quite more purpose. As the internet and social media grew we moved more towards pictures and videos instead of stories? Travel is a bit easier but also Japan has pushed it a bit harder as other industries have been offshored. Granted, they don’t always do it *well*, but they’ve established a bit more that Japan isn’t an inaccessible place. I wonder if airline flights helped too - Iceland is the recent example to point to in that regard. The Internet just sped up how quickly things get updates related to “where to go.” More is publishing online and in English, and it’s so much easier to find things on your own that aren’t printed travel guides. Though guess what my wife still always gets before we traveled pre-pandemic 
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