Original of Richard Lederer, and a good exemplification of the quirks and vagaries of the English language. Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in… Read More »English is a Crazy Language
This is a reblog/translation of a post by Héctor García… During the 80s in the United States, Japan was started to be seen as the inevitable first economic power of the world. It went from… Read More »Neuromancer – Japanese words…
Si están interesados en conocer más acerca de la poesía de Nezahualcoyotl, les recomiendo la nueva aplicación que Conaculta lanzó en iTunes. La obra del Rey Poeta aparece en náhuatl y en traducción al Casrellano,… Read More »Nezahualcoyotl: una aplicación de @conaculta
The Grand Prince Hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo was built in the 70s and it is one of the most notable buildings in that area of the Japanese capital. At the beginning of 2011 the hotel… Read More »Step-by-step demolition of the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, Tokyo
Sir Winston Churchill dijo una vez que los estadounidenses y los británicos son “un pueblo dividido por una lengua común” … y en el caso del Cockney tal vez tenga razón. En la revista Algarabía me… Read More »Más allá del acento Cockney
I have written Japanese (not as well as I would like though) for some time and doing so with the computer is always a pleasure. I’m used to almost always use the same dictionary, the… Read More »Japanese writing in iOS and Mac OS X
First of all, I guess I must explain what ふりがな (furigana) are. Japanese uses characters of Chinese origin called Kanji. Because of the way they have been adopted into Japanese, a single character is more… Read More »Furigana (ふりがな) in Mac
原発くん – Nuclear Boy
Untranslatable words
OS-tan antropomorphising your favourite OS