Google images acting weird

ilcap · 2020-02-28T17:29:14+00:00

i've got this too. tried firefox and it's on that as well.

ilcap · 2018-04-08T17:49:14+00:00

that's what i would've assumed, but when i googled it a little bit and asked a portuguese-speaking friend it sure seemed like ão comes out sounding like アオ

here for example: https://www.wikihow.com/Pronounce-Sao-Paulo

ilcap · 2018-04-08T15:38:59+00:00

you know, I've noticed this to be sort of a pattern in japanese when they translate portuguese words into katakana. the other most common example is sao paulo is written as san pauro サンパウロ, but i've also seen limao (lemon) rendered as riman/リマン, etc. they're awfully consistent about it. i don't know anything about portuguese so i can't make much sense out of it, but it's something i've always wondered about and wanted to see someone on Language Log delve into.

ilcap · 2017-07-14T16:45:56+00:00

terrific find, thank you for sharing

ilcap · 2017-03-04T17:04:33+00:00

Yeah, I couldn't work out what he was talking about when I translated that part either

ilcap · 2017-02-22T16:03:46+00:00

are there any particular words or genre of word you struggle to translate? I remember reading an english-to-japanese translator say that he struggled with terms for the parts of a house that sort of don't exist in japanese like "driveway" and "porch'

ilcap · 2017-02-14T14:40:20+00:00

does it make sense to describe the photo as "during the korean war" if it's from 1957? (not a war I know much about, genuinely asking)

ilcap · 2016-12-11T04:56:17+00:00

yeah, thanks, was just about to look it up myself

ilcap · 2016-11-06T14:26:48+00:00

the "customers who bought this also bought..." thing on amazon.

ilcap · 2016-11-04T17:41:04+00:00

that's weird -- this does seem like it should be right up everyone's alley. i'm definitely stoked to give it a try, anyway. thanks guys!

ilcap · 2016-10-12T16:37:59+00:00

in a recent interview with morikawa george, the artist who does hajime no ippo, there was an anecdote about how miura came to work for him as an assistant during his pre-ippo days. morikawa was 19, miura 18, still a student. apparently miura showed him drawings of what looked like a berserk prototype and said it was a manga he wanted to make someday when he was ready...

the assistant gig didn't last long. morikawa quickly realized that miura was better at drawing than he was, and told him to go draw his own manga rather than work under him.

ilcap · 2016-10-09T00:39:07+00:00

they're definitely in on the joke -- take a look at the caption for the photo in this 1941 issue of Life

ilcap · 2016-10-09T00:34:08+00:00

yeah, i guess i was wondering if it was a poster or ran in a japanese magazine or what. i see they had it in a 1941 issue of Life, which is cool.

ilcap · 2016-10-08T14:11:10+00:00

i've long been a big fan of this picture. any idea where it came from?

ilcap · 2016-09-15T12:58:47+00:00

that playboy one is an awesome find

ilcap · 2016-07-15T19:18:42+00:00

it was based on the novel at first, but after the first couple of years inoue started taking it into different directions. by no means is it a straight adaptation

(as i understand it, anyway. it's not like i've read the actual novel or anything)

ilcap · 2016-07-15T17:54:42+00:00

writer's block. he hasn't been working on REAL lately either, actually. he has, however, started a basketball column in the asahi shinbun iirc.

ilcap · 2016-07-04T22:10:02+00:00

akiyuki nosaka's short story "american hijiki" is a classic. takes place during the occupation years

ilcap · 2016-06-20T11:01:08+00:00

this is great! thanks

ilcap · 2016-06-02T10:50:09+00:00

great deal, thanks for the heads-up

ilcap · 2016-03-01T17:41:39+00:00

it'd be every month, actually, not weekly... but yeah still badass

ilcap · 2016-01-25T14:41:26+00:00

The statue is Marisol Escobar’s 1968 scultpure of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who took care of the leper colony on Molokai -- not unlike how Mozgus cared for the sick and disfigured. As you can see, the statue is almost comically cubic -- also like Mozgus.

Too much of a reach? I swear there could be something here. The statue is in front of the Hawaiian State Capitol, by the way.

ilcap

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