> Perhaps I am the one who possesses the face image of the most boss in the world. I must have it more than his parents.
:)
I've been learning Japanese and studied in Japan for a while and it is fascinating to see this:
> When you are working, you have browsed information that is not relevant to your work, haven’t you?
I don't know enough Japanese to translate half of it, but that kind of negative question termination is really characteristic from the language: "masenka?" (ませんか？) or even "sou desuka?" (そうですか？) as a reply.
The interesting thing is that you can see the progress depending on the English level of the person, as Japanese people who are more fluent in English will first translate it into "right?". Even more fluent people will leave the sentence open-ended like it's missing something as they realize it's not so natural in English but still haven't totally switched over.
Note: I'm Spanish and it's also funny to catch myself saying some of these different things as well.
More things pointing to this being a Japanese blog:
"aho" in "Ahogrammar", the name of the blog, is Japanese for stupid/silly.
The wordpress theme is setup to write dates in Japanese.
The default "Hello World" post from the wordpress installation has been left intact and is in Japanese.
He links to his Github, where he registered himself under a Japanese name and as living in Tokyo, as well as published code for a Japanese chatbot that can search for restaurants [1].
In a way, it's like porting a program, from one language which supports ternary operations, to a language that does not have ternary operations - and having to manually write out the ternary operation as an if-then-else statement.
i was traveling in india and went to an outdoor festival with friends
there was a merchant doing mehndi
my friend got her palms decorated then i asked to get mine done
he told me it was only for women but i insisted and he begrudgingly, with a smile of disbelief, painted my palms
the next day when we checked out of our hotel there was a man standing next to the desk
he started to laugh and grabbed my hand and said, 'this is only women, not men'
i said, 'well, i like it'
and he responded, 'in india only women try to see the beautiful, men do not try to see the beautiful'
now, i knew what he meant.. only women try to 'look' beautiful stead 'see'
but 'see' was so potent i loved it
as if to say men refuse to 'see the beautiful' so women feel compelled to adorn themselves so men will think them beautiful
whereas women 'see the beautiful' in all things and as such see beauty in men without adornment
i wanted to respond, 'you're right, you are failing to see the beauty of anyone having painted palms'
but i laughed with him and said, 'exactly, i wanted to look beautiful'
I find it exciting to figure out someone's native language, or to understand the phrase in the original language before translation.
A Spaniard asked me once to give me the "carpet", which made no sense in the context. He meant to say "file folder" ("la carpeta" in Spanish), hoping the Normans had brought the equivalent French word to England and save him a lookup in the dictionary.
Danish has "sprog" which sounds a lot funnier if you say it "in English". In Danish it sounds quite similar to språk -- just soften everything until it turns into a mush of vowels.
[1] For people not versed in Scandiwegian, there's this tradition of "å" -> "aa", "æ" -> "ae", "ø/ö" -> "oe" from the olden days... which is surprisingly useful even in these days of (one would hope) "pervasive" Unicode. :)
So close, yet so far.
Edit: work as in for a username.
Only for those without a Norwegian keyboard.
Should be språk.