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March 07, 2008
Ergo Proxy and Asian Languages
An interesting take on the way Asian languages like Japanese and Chinese are blended with English on the Internet:
Engrish — a patois of Japanese and English, but also of English and other Asian languages — pervades YouTube commentaries and other free-for-all global forums: there they are, roman letters, usually all lowercase and often with irregular spacing between words, expressing clearly or seemingly non-Western ideas, sometimes much more decorously than my fellow Americans, sometimes far less.
Word of the day
懸念
けねん
worry; concern
As the Nikkei reports, concerns about the U.S. economy have increased the value of the yen against the dollar:
円、一時8年ぶり101円台半ば・米景気後退懸念根強く
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