Martin Spivey

Indeed there are hundreds along the train tracks near my home in the centre of Akita City. It can be done without destroying the countryside.

Well, I think solar energy should be localised whether for one household or a small neighbourhood. That brings its own risks but so does being part of a huge electricity grid. Roofs are ideal for solar panels. Places like Akita have plenty of empty brownfield sites that could take solar panels....

Thank you sharing this. Yes, two body parts for the price of one! I suppose this one refers to 'making history/a historical moment'.

The hand on the shoulder suggests comforting and support for making a courageous decision??? (i.e., it's the right thing to do) 🤔

I don't know if it will ever be enough to power most of the country, but I'd rather they put cash into wind and solar than nuclear. Safer and will work out much cheaper in the long run.

Thanks for this. Ordinarily, I would agree that nuclear power is much better than fossil fuels but after Fukushima I am still doubtful we can trust that proper safety measures are put in place. And wind turbines are getting put up everywhere here. Akita is by the sea and gets a lot of wind!

Can't you buy energy from prefectures that create a lot of wind power? Most, if not all, of Akita's wind energy is sold to outside energy companies.

Metonym, rather!

...people still understand the meaning? I think so.

With 'history won't forgive us/be kind etc', does the reader think of future generations or history books? 🤔 Presumably the former but it becomes an erroneous expression if taken literally. We would be the history! 😅

Yes, I suppose that is more of a mentonym. 'The history books will not be kind' could be considered a literal expression rather than a metaphor? I feel 'history won't forgive us' is similar to 'the proof of the pudding'. Many miss out 'is in the eating' these days. Is it so entrenched that...

New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
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Working on metaphors in political speech right now and the 'history will/won't...' metaphor is an interesting one.

First of all, who/what is history? Secondly, surely it is future generations that won't forgive us (the history)? I guess it comes from 'the history books won't be kind' metaphor...

Didn't get to the conference but would have enjoyed this! Just started playing around with Python and trying to get the hang of it. 😅

📚 Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation and Applications to English and Japanese is out now! In it, we build on and expand Hoey’s LP theory by applying it to specific varieties of Japanese and English, as represented in corpora

🔗 You can find it here doi.org/10.4324/9781... & more details below👇

The Mainichi has an English article on the incident yesterday morning, when a bear broke into a high school gym in Yamagata, had a bit of a frolic, then left. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Another update to the fall-spring transition plans (h/t @rbyryo.bsky.social) - of the ¥10.8 billion the league has set aside for the transition, ¥5 billion ($32.9m) will be used as subsidies for northern clubs to buy cold-weather equipment such as air domes, heating systems and pitch covers.

This week’s Literary Linguistics seminar on metaphor features this seasonal absolute paranoid cracker by Hugh Sykes Davies (1936)

I appreciate players develop at different ages but a talent like his would probably have come to the fore by 21/22.

...and that's too late, especially if you want a decent career abroad. Financial rules mean a lot of Euro clubs won't touch you if you're in your late-20s as there's little profit potential (as sad as these considerations are). If Kaoru Mitoma was 25 he would have got an even bigger move by now.

I think more J League academy/SHS players will forego uni to start their pro careers at 18 and not 22. I am strongly in favour of getting an education but there's no reason they can't do it PT in this day and age. A lot of players don't get going until 26/27 currently...

Impressive whiskers! 🤩

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Akita to seek SDF deployment over bear attacks More than 100 people across the country have been killed or injured by bears in the current fiscal year.

Akita is considering asking for the deployment of Self-Defense Forces troops following a spate of bear attacks across the prefecture.

Bear attack survival tips released in Japan as encounters surge Governor of one prefecture says he is considering asking the military for help to tackle increasing attacks amid thousands-strong bear population

Bear attack survival tips released in Japan as encounters surge

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It's THAT exciting a game!

Hmmm. Possibly but often negatively affects us too. If the ball is moving along the surface quickly, you could knock it around us much faster. Yamagata did that to us earlier in the season.

@mynameisjef.bsky.social Kawano starting at CB against his old club. May the best team (not) win! 😅

What do you put it down to? Are a lot of these from bad tackles or players just breaking down after too much football?

You took CB Inoue off us after about 5 months! 😜 Players jump at the first better offer on the table it seems. Good move for him but why not stay a bit longer and see what other offers you get?

I think we have similar issues. Very low budget so can't sign any game-changers apart from a bit of a risk from the league below. Akita getting Komatsu from Matsumoto was a bit of a coup though it took over half a season for him to get going. It's just so hard to keep players in J League...