LANGUAGE: Japanese RELIGION: Shinto; Buddhism; Confucianism; Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION The Japanese islands have been inhabited by humans since Paleolithic times. Archaeologists there have discovered some of the oldest pottery known to exist. Migration has not been a significant feature of ...
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Giant figs and nectarines fill my bag as I navigate the French language for the first time and realize I don’t have all the words I need, but I overcome my hesitancy to look foolish and pointing helps. I find out later it happens to be nectarine season which is why they are bursting...
You know, we cannot stress enough how much culture will help you overcome some language difficulties or help you understand the language that much more. Right Sakura? Sakura: Yes. Peter: You really cannot stress how much culture is involved in the language itself. So thank you again Sakura....
what about “automated censorship” of text written in a language for which the censorware is not designed?Clive Robinson • December 3, 2018 5:16 PM @ echo, I’m still interested in the challenge of a verifiable by eye mechanical computer capable of implementing AES level encryption. When...
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Kurosawa and Miyazaki discuss the difficulty of speaking about one’s own work, the sweet taste of sake at the end of a long shoot, the pain of sitting at a desk drawing day in and day out, what it took to build a sloping street for ...
England/Fem!America - wooing with the language of the flowers England and Russia fighting over America England being recruited by The Masons, and then recruiting America England orchestrates the American Revolution win (time travel) Fem!UK and Fem!China discuss their lives (USUK, Russia/China) ...
Shared interests gave these strangers common ground. But the Japanese language offered no concrete way for unacquainted fans to casually (but not too casually) refer to each other. Famed social critic and anthropologist Eiji Otsuka recalls,
In one of @ Bruce Schneier’s books, he discusses the use of language taboos as one of the ways that societies enforce community values. One of these has been shattered in the USA, and perhaps around the world. Thanks to Potus45, serious journalistic media now have to use the word ‘sh...