Update: The Downs family now has a website up. Go to RayDowns.com for information on the memorial service and so on. Ray Downs was headmaster at ASIJ during my years there, and the one who signed my parents’ contracts to work at the school. He was the sort of administrator who had done his long [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Blog on Asian security, win a prize
This message just got sent out on the NBR Japan Forum. Given my dedication to blogging it isn’t something I’ll be shooting for, but it may be of interest to other people out there in the more serious corners of Asia-based web writing. The MacArthur Foundation has extended their deadline for their new Asia Security [...]
Cuban pitchers lose to translator
A flubbed translation with real-world impact! “Translation Error Costs Cuba the Use of Two Pitchers” is the New York Times article telling the tale. The official rules of the World Baseball Classic are in English only, but that isn’t stopping teams from looking at versions of them in other languages, too. This came back to [...]
The Correct Translation
Posting another one of those translation essays I wrote for some people on the JET Program: “Can you look over this translation to make sure it’s correct?” This is the sort of request you might hear from time to time. What does correctness mean in this case, though? There are many ways to measure how [...]
Rearing up in my airspace
Yes, the Russians are attacking. Ever since the day I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7.1 I’ve been getting dozens of subscriptions a week from bizarre nonhumans (or so I suspect) that I’ve been zapping away. These include: Subscribers with names that don’t come close to matching the addresses and are close to nonsensical: “OblitbionoLal,” [...]
