Notices by Robert Belton (shiawase@mastodon.social)

@mario
That prompted me to look at the original on aozora. Which seems a monster of a sentence with maybe 10 clauses. But looking at the rest of the page, the author makes liberal use of " 、" which maybe works like a full stop for him.
I'm not a translator but it looks like an interesting problem.

@mario
One of my favourites
It has a great cover of John Denver's Country Roads. One of the few Japanese songs I could do at karaoke.

@mario
Bit of a miracle the battery still holds a charge.

@mario
It's bs that any (self respecting) professional translator would use it though. I see all these as for casual users that can't afford a translator or cheapskate companies that won't pay for one. or churning out stuff they don't think anyone would read.

@mario
Didn't know this LLM.
Ignoring their self hype, it's an interesting idea how they flag areas of concern and offer different styles. I wonder if the styles are post processing on the translation.
Interesting choice / weighting that led to bowel movement as a default rather than flight in a contextless situation. trained on medical material?
The page I put through it made a similar bad choice in a key phrase. translating くさい as dull not smelly when the piece was about smells.

@mario @kornelis
good detecting.

the 山 is a *very* stylised 亠 with a lot of space before the two strokes underneath. I suppose even a stylised 山 would have a more distinct join between strokes 2 and 3.

and what does yakitori have to do with puppet shows? or vice versa? I didn't think Ueno was known for bunraku.

goes to show how you can lock on to a known shape.

I'm curious as well.
酒 ok
??
やきとりok
楽 ok
other character ?
it only seems 2 or 3 strokes to me under 山
none of the characters with that placement of 山 I find seem to make any sense.
and you'd think it'd be a relatively common character if used in a sign.

https://mastodon.cloud/@kornelis/113526360345444727

@mario
I do have sympathy for kids that are going to have their lives disrupted by being pulled out of their school. It's not as if they have any power over anything.
They're also unlikely to be at the truly 'elite' schools either. The rich won't be affected that much, I doubt any school will shut down either.
The nordic idea of no private schools would be better. Of course the rich would just send their kids abroad.

@mario
People will just have to find it elsewhere. (a 1 min search later… )

@mario
It is.
It’s well made for a tv anime series. Interesting shot compositions and background activity.

There’s also a 2013 (?) live action film but I’ve yet to see it. I haven’t read the book either.

@mario

Coincidentally it was announced today that one of the October free streaming films in JFF theatre will be the live action version of 船を編む　ー The Great Passage (2013)

— unfortunately not available to anyone in Japan

[edit reading further and also not available in North America and Europe, which most likely includes the Brexit Isles. I was excited for 5 mins… ]

https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/

Rewatching 「船を編む」”The Great Passage” anime. It’s about compiling a dictionary. An unlikely topic but engaging. I like the little interludes about dictionaries.

@mario
fwiw when I’m faced with a word like this that I can’t get a handle on, I escalate from the quick and dirty edict based dictionaries to curated dictionaries (mac built in Wisdom and Super Daijirin) and ones with Japanese definitions. Children’s dictionaries being useful because they can be both simple and accurate for most words I’m likely to encounter. Usually with far better example usage examples too.
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@mario
oh, where I usually came across this construction is バカじゃない、or バカじゃないよ
meaning that’s idiotic, or, are you stupid or what? rather than that’s not stupid
or indeed ばかじゃん in a certain tone of voice

@mario
Personally I don’t think that 不思議　has any negative feeling (despite that 不)
Also I think that 不思議じゃないよ expresses assertion rather than negation, along the lines of it’s really wonderful don’t you think, in response to the more milder ね seeking agreement.
I might be wrong of course. and claim no authority.
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@mario @kleinertod @richardmedh
if allocated proportionally (at 1% = 6.5 seats) Reform would be circa 91 seats, Green 44, Labour 215, Con 154, Lib 78,
I think the hope is that under STV the more extreme parties are eliminated in round 1. and some smaller parties have more chance at gaining traction.
None the less the rightward march of politics is depressing.

Only voting reform on the horizon is the expansion of the vote to 16yr olds.

@mario
City Lit?

@mario
Somebody found a suitable word to fit that is no longer in use.
Actually quite clever but I don’t think a native speaker would have chosen it.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cates

number 21: Use public transport.
Much of my reading was done when I had a daily commute. I even missed my stop a couple of times.

Oddly I have never liked audio books. I tend not to concentrate with them. And I think I read faster than someone can narrate. (same with lectures that are just reading the slides, or youtube “info” videos) But I can listen to good audio drama or discussion type podcasts.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/25/the-experts-librarians-on-20-easy-enjoyable-ways-to-read-more-brilliant-books

@mario

I suspect you can celebrate kanreki sometime this year. おめでとう〜