Yet another of those translation-related essays for the JET folks. I talk about the “CIR experience” below, but there are people with the language skills they need to get onto the low rungs of the translation ladder working Eikaiwa or JET language-teacher jobs too. Hope you find it interesting. After spending their years as coordinators [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The oldest words in English
Link of the day: An interesting look at language-related stuff comes from the University of Reading, where researchers have used powerful computers to figure out which words in the English language have stuck around unchanged for the longest time and to predict which ones are likely to disappear in the future. The rundown is that [...]
How it may have gone down
So I have decided to build more traffic for my site by writing things that outrage certain foreign Japan residents. Speaking of outrage, how ’bout them 帰国支援金 payments to unemployed Nikkei to help them go back to Brazil, Peru, and so on? The New York Times has covered this dastardly attempt to give the boot [...]
