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This is not outright horrible, but it's not great either. It makes the same error a lot of these guidance documents do in that it puts the presence of AI at the center, rather than the foundations of the experiences of learning. There's a lot of examples to illustrate, but I'll stick with two...

La a) me suena más a "¡Pero qué morro!", la b) más a ofrecer ayuda.

「セントラル・リーグ 2027年シーズンからの指名打者制（DH制）採用決定」のお知らせ

セ・リーグ、2027年シーズンからDH制導入

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You Know More Finnish Than You Think Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…

I've strayed into another language family, and made Finnish the subject of this month's post. Under the surface though, it's a piece about prehistoric languages, and how millennia-long linguistic contact can make foreign languages seem more familiar.
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International Conference: Human Translators in Focus
"Exploring the Human Aspects of Japanese Literary Translation through a Sociological Lens"

22-24 October 2025

at Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation (Dublin, Ireland) and online

www.tcd.ie/literary-tra...

Please do keep the fun quizzes coming!

Never in a million years would I have gotten it.

Some form of Mongolian or Manchu?

Is it related to Phags-pa?

Here's a little quiz:

In the commentary to his 1802 translation of Hager's Dissertation on the Newly Discovered Babylonian Inscriptions of 1801, Klaproth mentions a recently acquired "Chinese-Japanese dictionary" printed during the reign of the Japanese emperor "Kin-schang".

Who is this? 🤔🧐 1/

You know, that looks suspiciously like 今上天皇...

Yeah, I've never seen that either. In my experience, editors are way too busy to actually rewrite parts of the manuscript. The author(s) are responsible for that.

阪神　マジック３９点灯！

まだ油断したらあかんけん。

2008年も7月にマジック点灯したし…

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"Academic Editing in the Humanities"
by Kate Wildman Nakai
This is from 2009, but I just found it today. I'm definitely going to include it in my MA seminar materials from now on. www.swet.jp/articles/art...

Hieratic Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Hieratic

Big #Egyptian news!! Book on Hieratic.

Free to download for 2 weeks.
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No equivalent of 文武両道 in Chinese thought?

Coberta de 'Gangsta major', "una novel·la d'Edgar Cantero". Surt una noia pèl-roja amb un fusell apuntant al campanar d'un poble.

Amics i senyors tutti quanti, Vinc en qualitat d'autor, i perdoneu que me’n vanti però trec llibre a la tardor. Torna el Cegador de Verri, torna el thriller neorural. Amb més cotxes, hòsties, risses, amb AMOR i el sant graal! Ens veiem allà al setembre, que en farem presentació. Edita Empúries com sempre, i se’n diu GANGSTA MAJOR!

Persones,

Llibre nou. Pel setembre.

Més info (inclosos actes i signatures) aquí: punkahoy.blogspot.com/2025/07/aleg...

Feu-ho córrer. Gràcies.

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En septiembre volvemos con más grupos de japonés, nuestra oferta cultural a cargo de expertos y un nuevo curso de especialización de traducción.

Todo ello en Espai Daruma, tu academia online de japonés, cultura y traducción.

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En esa botella creo que lo confundiría demasiado a menudo con el champú.

Five books are lying on the floor. One is open and shows an image on the upper left page.

Unpacking. It’s finally here. Best of all: you can share the excitement for free, as the book is open access. Follow the link in the post below to download a PDF or EPUB version.
Happy reading and happy strolling through Japanese garden history!

Hypothetically speaking, would anyone be interested in joining a #aas2026 panel on settler colonialism in the Japanese Empire? My thought is, emphasis on how (un)applicable(?) settler colonial/critical Indigenous studies theory is to different colonial spaces.

Cindi Textor's wonderful _Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility_ is available for free download. With chapters on Yi Kwangsu, Kim Saryang, Kim Sokpong, Yi Yangji, Yu Miri and others.

I think for Japanese readers his most famous work would still be "The Dancing Girl of Izu." For a different side of Kawabata make sure to check out _The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa_.

It's actually relatively common in Spain. Usually a Japanese native speaker teaming up with a Spanish native speaker, like it seems is the case here.

Encara deus ser-hi a temps.

Espero que tenga mucho éxito y pronto se animen a traducir también las divertidísimas _Veinte historias de impiedad filial_ (『本朝二十不孝』, 1686) del mismo autor.

Qué alegría ver que @satoriediciones.bsky.social publicará una traducción de las historias de mercaderes de Ihara Saikaku _Este mundo astuto_ (『世間胸算用』, 1692).

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Esta tarde nos vemos en el Palau Macaya.

Presentación de la plataforma J-Lab: "El éxito de la cultura pop japonesa en nuestro país" - Casa Asia La plataforma digital J-Lab nace con el objetivo de ofrecer un espacio dinámico y riguroso dedicado a la información, el conocimiento y el análisis especializado sobre las relaciones entre España y Ja...

Martes 8/7 18:30

Presentación de la plataforma J-Lab: “El éxito de la cultura pop japonesa en nuestro país”

Palau Macaya
Passeig Sant Joan, 108
Barcelona

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The distinction is a false one. All games are cooperative. The very act of agreeing to & honouring rules, & the deeper compact, of temporarily engaging in the roleplay that the drama taking place on the table is *important* - this is a fundamentally cooperative enterprise.