My company gets lots of unsolicited messages from people around the world looking to get something published. Today as I was cleaning out our catch-all address, erasing several hundred spam notes and forwarding or responding to the two or three messages that actually needed attention, I saw this press release from someone at Turkey’s Dogan [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Link of the day
Here’s the Language Log archive of its “There’s no word for X in language Y” posts. Handy ammunition for when someone talks about how some concept in Japanese can’t possibly be translated faithfully into English, or vice versa.
Yomiuri archives free this month
A common lament among Japan observers is the horrible state of online news archives. Once upon a time the Saga Shimbun had a great archive going back to the dawn of its Web existence. It was shut down, probably at the insistence of Kyodo et al., whose wire articles were also available going back to [...]
