July 2011
We will study your proposal.
English Statement Made by a Japanese
Person
Actual Meaning in American
I See.
No.
Ah.
No.
Ah-hah.
No.
Yes.
No.
That is difficult.
That is completely impossible.
That is very interesting.
That is the stupidest thing I ever heard.
We will study your proposal.
We will feed your proposal to a...
Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X →
Some handy information on ways to reduce the size of PDFs produced in OSX. But you’d think that the better solution here isn’t “give a smaller-size PDF of your presentation slides to everyone,” but “give them a useful text document with the in-depth information they didn’t get from your visually oriented slides.”
“English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Love, the moon, and translation →
AKB48: The media response →
June 2011
