Posts Tagged ‘english’

Chrome wants to be helpful by translating a page from Japanese to English. Okay. What I find interesting isn’t so much the fact that Chrome is asking if I want to have the site translated; it’s that Chrome isn’t asking if I want to use an English Google site instead.

It seems nobody knows how to spell anymore. Is it just me that gets upset about this?

An odd thing happened on Friday: my “Get out of English Free” card didn’t work. Friday evening, while I was making the trek from 本山駅 to 名古屋駅, I was stuck on the subway with a bunch of over-active high school
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How easy is it for you to read Tweets, status updates, blog posts, or emails? i lyke too tok on teh web bkuz my bffs r on it Did you understand that one sentence?  I’m sure you did.  But could
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I paid 320,000 Yen for this? Sitting in a small room, a foreign person across from him, Kenji Yamamoto sighed as he weighed his options yet again. Kenji had come to the language school in order to earn the skills
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This past weekend has seen a lot of money change hands, and a lot of people lose their jobs. According to every report that’s coming out of CNN and the Wall Street Journal, this isn’t over, either. Despite the fact
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