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It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, or at least sensible, to the person who hears it, but it’s not obvious to other people. But it was obvious...
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I was wondering: In which languages, user interface translations tend to be longer, and in which ones they are shorter? The intuitive answers to these questions are that Chinese and Japanese are very short, English tends to be shorter than the average, Hebrew is shorter than English, and the...
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This is a new version of a post that was originally published in 2015. Much of it is the same, but there are several updates that justified publishing a new version. Introduction As you probably already know, Wikipedia is a website. A website has two components: the content and the user...
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Originally written as an answer to the question What are some major flaws in Wikipedia? on Quora. Republished here with some changes. Wikipedia has a whole lot of flaws, and its basic meta-flaw is the disease of familiarity. It does not mean what you think it means. The disease of...
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宣伝です！英語版の翻訳を担当させていただいた絵本のオリジナル日本語版『かわうそスーのぼうけん』（ストーリー/イラスト：たくや・さくらさん）が、一部店舗とオンラインストアで発売中です。 『かわうそスーのぼうけん』（ストーリー/イラスト：たくや・さくら） 絵本の主人公は、ちょっと臆病だけど好奇心いっぱいのカワウソの男の子、スー。そんな彼が勇気を振りしぼり、ひとり「冒険の旅」に出かけます。どこまでも愛くるしいスーと彼を取り巻く人々が、やさしい色合いで描かれた絵本です。とても穏やかな時間の流れを感じられる作品。お子さまだけでなく、大人の方のリラックスタイムにもどうぞ。...
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Twitter sometimes offers machine translation for tweets that are not written in the language that I chose in my preferences. Usually I have Hebrew chosen, but for writing this post I temporarily switched to English. Here’s an example where it works pretty well. I see a tweet written in French, and...
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Documentary film “Moleman 4 - Longplay” was released on Vimeo the other day. And I joined their project as a Japanese translator :) You know what this is if you’d watched Moleman episode before, but Moleman is a series of documentary which features subcultures in Hungary. And this time they...
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→日本語でよむ Welcome to the Interview with Demosceners. This time, we welcome 0x4015 who won 4K compo at Revision this spring. This created a buzz among Japanese people in the community, because this was the first time that Japanese demoscener had won at Revision, the largest demoscene party held...
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Voice is important for me when I translate. When I got texts, I always (unconsciously) imagine the suitable voice for the texts. I do quite a lot of marketing translation, and each company, brand or promotion has its own human-like characteristics. Some companies specify the tone of the...