That’s right. Even Japanese people have a hard time understanding what anime characters say because it’s such a foreign language to them. They have to take a special course in school called “anime language” which helps them understand it, just a bit. Even then, most Japanese people can only understand about 70% of the words…
AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2012-08-19
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"two guys selling med cream in KL, Malaysia" 賣藥膏- FUNNY!!! (Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese!!!) – YouTube – t.co/j2ZUKWYX # "Dickson Poon, CBE, SBS (Chinese: 潘迪生; Pun Dik Sang) is a Hong Kong businessman in the luxury goods retailing sector" t.co/Tq5LmLv1 # Full-length #Cantonese movies | cantonese hk movie – YouTube – t.co/GHiqLiqO #immersion # Minitube, YouTube…
Three Minutes Of…
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 20 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyFile this one under “autobiographical advice”…. But I guess that file would include all advice ever given in the history of mankind. All philosophy is (auto)biography…I think Steve Chandler or someone said that once. So let me paint a little picture for you. The…
The Patience Paradox: Asymmetric Patience
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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Patience“A lord spoke to his servant one day: Lord: Be sure to plant that cherry tree this afternoon. Servant: But it will not bloom for 40 years! Lord: Better make it this morning then.” “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.…
AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2012-08-12
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Things, To put it simply: The talent theory of expertise… – t.co/of2iInkz # 80/20法則(二版) – aNobii – t.co/KMXGLNd0 # Be patient enough to wait for results but not so patient that you do nothing to cause them. #immersion # KTV 周杰倫 髮如雪 – YouTube – t.co/fIiysJRK # Kumaneko Xiongmao – Sakura – YouTube – t.co/Tn8tJGAq…
That Righteous Feeling, Or: If You’re Not Feeling Naughty, You’re Doing It Wrong
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This entry is part 7 of 11 in the series Mediocre Excellence“if you’re reading a book that’s killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren’t enjoying a television programme” “if you don’t read the classics…nothing bad will happen to you; more importantly, nothing…