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It's been a while since I watch that video, but I'm pretty sure he mentioned the different team working on it reason as well, and the rest of the video was only explaining the intentional differences instead of the inherent differences that comes from different people working on the translations?

Where I live, due different dialects being widely in use, it's common for TV and movies to show subtitle in the same language as the spoken language. Even then, it is not uncommon for the subtitle to deviate from what is spoken.

Also, as an English learner I used to watch TV shows with subtitles for the visually impaired, and there are times when the English subtitle deviate from what's the actors says as well.

Sometimes it's phrases that are commonly use in speech but strange to see written down; sometimes it's just tonal things that would get lost if written as-is; sometimes long speech is summarized so it doesn't' become a wall of text; sometimes it's most likely to just be mistakes.

Unless the difference actually contains significantly different meaning and can lead to misunderstanding, I don't see why that'd an issue that is worth spending the effort on eliminating?

Especially when it comes to translation, it's not like there's only one possible way of translating a sentence, who should make the editorial choice on which version is best and would that even be helpful for the purpose of disseminating information? If anything, having two version is probably better for gaging the tone and nuance in the original language.

The article is talking about colorectal cancer and bladder cancer, y chromosome owners can get those cancers too whether or not they have female phenotype or not.

Think of it as men = "people with y chromosome" varible setting, or a "People with y chromosome (hereinafter referred to as men)" in a contract.

The scientifically accurate way to describe the subject of the article is "people with y chromosome" but that is clunky to repeat so they want to designate a shorthand for it, while acknowledging that without proper definition the shorthand would be vague and not accurate description.

I'd think defining your terms clearly is perfectly suitable for a scientific journal.

Major charities does the same.

I have heard anthropologists tell anecdotes about Red Cross refusing to help a village just a couple of hours drive away from their outposts because there is no press coverage and they would rather spend their supplies on places where it'd get reported on, because the report brings in more donations. Emotionally I sympathize with the people that the speaker spent time with and resent Red Cross's decision, but pragmatically I can see that it make sense.

I've talked to nurses who volunteered at MSF say they passed by many villages that needed help on their way to their destination, a more well-known location that will bring more attention for their services. Lord knows they lamented over it, but the decision was made by the organization to ensure they get the maximum donation needed to help more people.

I have literally never watched a single Mr Beast videos, but going by what I'm seeing in articles like these, I fail to how what he's doing is any worse than most charities.

Good to know he was professional people he work with - for what it is worth, I am not saying he is not good at what he does, and whatever personal shortcomings he might have, it's not about his work.

That's why I usually hold my tongue when people praise his work, there's no reason his personal believes should affect people's enjoyment of his work (I'd do the same for people enjoying Orson Scott Card's books, for example). I only bought it up in response to someone else mentioning it.

That said, his weird political stance is not a new thing, and not under duress from the CCP. He had been saying things like "freedom is not good for Chinese people" "Chinese people need to be controlled" since around 2009.

And being a general pos, horrible husband/father amongst other things... I usually bit my tongue when westerners fanboy about him since I don't want to be the party pooper but yeah, we don't really like him here. The blooper reels were neat, but that was a common feature in HK action films at the time and not really about integrity, since I don't think the audience were expected to believe any of the action were real.

FWIW, no one use his "real name" even here in HK. He has a chinese pseudonym that most people use, but even Jackie Chan is much more widely known/used than his actual legal name. That was kinda like calling 50 cents "Curtis James Jackson III".

Because people sending dick pics and spam had been a known issue for ages, yet this change came soon after China complaining about people sending protest flyers, rolled out in China first, and with no option to leave your phone open. One can argue whether it's Apple's job to fight censorship (and I might agree that it's not), but you have to willfully blind say this is not pro-censorship.

People who have not heard of King before Twitter and only hear of him from Twitter are not going to be the people buying his books.

So even if there were significant amount of people like you, he is not gaining anything from people seeing his Twitter. On the other hand, I have relatives who created Twitter accounts only to follow authors they like - the number of curated lists of notable literary figures is a testament to that fact.

I'm not saying Twitter is worthless to writers - readers talking about the books certainly helps sales, but that occurs regardless of whether the author themselves are on Twitter or not, and Twitter is certainly not the main platform people use to discuss books.

Money order in post office / banks / WU. The place generating the order will usual check your ID but they do not require you to include that info on what's sent to the recipient.

Netflix doesn't sell you movies, it sells you access to their services. If you look at their site now, it offers you to "create or restart your membership" to their "streaming services". If he purchased Netflix membership for a year and lost access before that year is up, I'm sure he'd be equally miffed.

Minecraft sells you the game - even right now, their site says "Get Minecraft" - in fact, it defaulted to Japanese for me where it says "MINECRAFTを購入" which is an even more unambiguous "BUY MINECRAFT".

It is like the difference between buying a e-book on Amazon and having it removed remotely, versus a book being removed from Kindle Unlimited. You have to be willfully obtuse to not understand why people might have different expectation for the two types of transactions, legalese in be damned.

In my personal experience Airbnb is good when you are travelling with a large group of people (6+) and/or with children. You can get a house with 3-4 rooms, a few bathrooms, a functional kitchen, laundry area, etc, for about half the price as it would be if you got double rooms at hotels for the same number of people, and it's much more convenient since you're not spread across different floors.

For solo travel tho, I'd rather book a hotel sight unseen than use airbnb, since too many people try to make their couch in the corner look like a nice private room in the listing.

The survey did not ask women to explain the reasons for their regret.

This seems a strange question to omit in the survey. There's a big difference between regretting because:

- the procedure negatively impacted their health

- the eggs failed to produce viable/healthy babies

- they did not end up needing the frozen eggs and felt $10-20k+ was wasted

Not asking and then attributing the regret to the conclusion that the procedure "could lead to unintended childlessness with devastating consequences" make me feel like they started out with the conclusion and worked backwards to try and get supporting results from the survey.

Onyx Boox are basically android tablets with e-ink that you can enable Play store on. I tried a couple of display models in stores and it seems quite responsive. Couldn't justify the price though since I've a backlog of books converted to epub that will take me a decade to get through.

It says he earned a few thousand pounds and recouped his cost upon his return. He would have earned a small amount of money and leveraged on that burst of fame and networking it brought him. Instead he decided to fight a stupid copyright battle. The photo didn't ruin his life, his decisions on what to do with it did.

English is not my first language so I wouldn't presume I know more than people at Merriam Webster - but that sounds iffy to me. Sure, I don't say deb-t, but isn't the b still there as a plosive / stop? If it were just spelt "det" I feel like it'd have a more prominent t sound.

It also seems strange to say it would have been better to get rid of it when we definitely need the b in "debit" and "debenture", isn't it better to keep the b, if just for clearer etymology?

Dogra Magra is a tough one, it is known to be hard to get through even for native speakers. From what I've heard (I have not attempted to read it), it's both dense in information, but very sparse in progression, so it's can be simultaneously boring to read while being extremely confusing, even famous mystery writers like Edogawa Ranpo and Yokomizo Seishi have commented that they were confused and didn't understand the story (they mean it in a good way, I think).

I've polled the 3 Japanese colleagues in my team and none of them have finished it, so I doubt it's something a lone translator would be able to tackle without spending years on it. The blogspot translator probably got into it and hit wall once the story starts going. That said, it sounds like a fun team project if someone were to organize it and keep everybody on track for at least a few months.

First of all, few "literary great" are untranslated, the existing translations may not be perfect, as an amateur I would not presume that I can do any better.

In addition, I think there's a different mind set when people consume translated literature versus pop culture works (games, anime, manga, light novel, pop music etc). With literature, the reader expect that the translated work should stand on its own - when you read All Quiet on the Western Front, you don't constantly remember that it was originally written in German, when you listen to Les Miserables, you probably don't think how the French version sounded. So you'd have to think of how to work around the clever rhymes, the double meanings, the local idioms, so you don't take too much liberty with the words but also don't take away the intended meaning.

Whereas with people who consume fan translation understand that it's there to help the viewer enjoy something both the viewer and translator like, it is not meant to be a stand-alone piece of art. So when needed, you can stick in a translator notes to explain the rhyme that got lost in translation, or put a full essay on how a throw away line is actually a historical reference that imply something different to what was said. It's much headache inducing and more fun to do.

Besides, let's be honest, do you really think a modern translation of Ulysses will get more views than even the most obscure "NY Times best seller" from the last 5 years? In terms of effort : enjoyment people get, I'd argue it's more worth your time to translate pop works.

Which honestly feels a bit silly to me, because the Chinese penjing community are also obsessed with the details of the craft - may be to a slightly less degree than their Japanese counterpart due to the Japan culture's tendency to formalize things. But I promise you penjing enthusiasts are just as likely as bonsai enthusiasts to object to stick-in-a-pot being called a penjing.

(eg of a penjing site full of guides and discussion about the type of plant, the soil, the pot etc: https://www.pjcn.org/ )

And just like the article says about Japanese and their attitude towards the "not bonsai" - outside of the enthusiast communities, most people don't care, and will enjoy their small-tree-like-plant and call it bonsai/penjing anyway.

So I don't see why one would object to calling a casual mini tree a bonsai but is comfortable calling it penjing. Either both are okay or neither is.

Often time when I look up a pronunciation video, it's for a language I'm learning and I have a vague idea of how the word is supposed to sound, but not sure on things like tonality and stress.

So, if I were to look up how to say "ramen", I might not know if it's supposed to be ra-MEN or RA-men, but I'd know it's wrong if they say it like "r-amen".

It wouldn't be as bad as you might think without prediction - back in the days with "dumb" input method, the word choices would be listed by frequency of use, and you'd remember which choice the word you want would be.

So you'd type shi and click the first choice for 是, second choice for 时, etc without even needing to read the options since they'll always be in that slot. If there's a word you use frequently but is listed late in the list you can change that in the settings file. Same for shortcuts like bhys and you can always add your own shortcut.

The Chinese keyboard I use does not have internet access and only does prediction based on set phrases - eg if you type 时 it'd offer 間, 代, 事, 空 etc; if you type tmd it'd give you you-know-what, and I prefer it over the Google keyboard since my muscle memory can do most of the work instead of my eyes.

I'm not in the US (HK) but me and a quite a few people I know have a dozen cards or more. I only regularly use 2-3 of them but the rest are useful for various occasions.

eg, Card A has no overseas transaction fees and has good exchange rate so I use it when travelling. Card B is same but I set a ridiculously low credit limit so I can use it in dodgy souvenir shops without worry. Card C gives airport lounge access. Card D gives free magazine and bottled water in the airport post-security areas. Card E grants access to clubhouses that are normally members-only, which I use for business meetings. Card F gets discounts for movie tickets, Card G to H gives free coffee upgrade from different chains, etc. And then there are a bunch that was pushed onto me when I got mortgage or a investment funds, that I never bothered to cancel since there's no annual fees and occasionally they'd have a promotion where it's actually useful.

I wouldn't want to carry all these physical cards, so I don't have them "in my wallet" per se, which is why it's nice to be able to add them all to my phone.

I've some sort of stock graphics library in my mind.

For example, I cannot visualize the apple I have in my hand, even if I consciously study it for a few minutes and note out the shape and colouration before closing my eyes. However, I can visualize "an apple", I even get a choice between clipart version or realistic stock photo version of a red delicious or an granny smith. I cannot conjure up the faces of people I know, or even my own face, but I can bring up "young adult asian male" "elderly white female" etc.

When I looked up aphantasia, one of the test was "can you visualize waves hitting the beach" and I was wondering if the Toei logo because I can rewatch that anytime I want, but I can't visualize a generic beach with waves.

They also let you cancel on their app or talking to the counter. The only "catch" is you have to do it at least 4 days ahead of the next payment or it will still go through one more time. I cancelled in person, they asked if I'd consider freezing the membership instead, I said no, they printed me a receipt for the cancellation on the spot and that was it.

Not a big fan of the gym itself, but I can't fault their cancellation process.

I'm from HK, the sounds in my name only really make sense in Cantonese - it is difficult to pronounce in most Chinese dialect, even I get stuck trying to say it in Mandarin myself.

So when I'm with non-Cantonese speaking people, I go by a random Anglo name I picked for myself decades ago. Honestly, I feel more attached to that name than any non-Cantonese pronunciation of my legal name.

It gets annoying when some well meaning people insist that they must learn how to pronounce my "real name", it leaves me two choices:

A) Lie and say that their attempt is good, and resign to never knowing if they're calling me for the rest of time, or

B) Repeat it dozens of time until they give up, and sometimes have them complain that they never encountered those sounds in their Chinese 101 class...

So while I think it's good to make an effort to pronounce names correctly, it's probably better to give up after a few honest attempt, if the person you are addressing don't mind.

Strange, I've used Calibre to convert my amazon.jp purchases and am pretty happy with it. It does convert vertical text into horizontal text by default, but the resulting text is perfectly normal without the problem you described, and you can add CSS to force vertical RTL.

There's some example and the css code they used towards the bottom of this page, if you'd like to take a look: https://webnetforce.net/post-105/

From my personal experience, podcast is more of a "main stream" thing in US/UK than most other countries. Most people know what it is, and sometime people recommend shows to you in casual conversation the same way they might recommend a tv show or a book.

In HK and Japan, while it is still quite widely used by the relatively more tech inclined people, you can't randomly ask a new friend if they like any podcast and expect them to know what you are talking about.

Also, English is a widely used language. My native language is Cantonese, but the amount of shows in that is very low, and I'm more comfortable with English than other Chinese dialects including Mandarin, so I listen to mostly English podcasts. I imagine similar thing might happen in countries with more than one spoken languages. I know some Indian friend who has a podcast that they did in English even though the topic and target audience are mostly Indians as well.

The JRE will debut on Spotify on September 1, 2020, and become exclusively available on the platform later this year.

The RSS podcast part will also be gone later in the year. I don't really listen to Joe Rogan's show, but I feel this is a very bad move for a "podcast" and am very said that a very prominent show decides to do this..

Open with ads is better than add free but walled for me as well.

But it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive, they could have put ad-free version on (paid) Spotify, ad version everywhere else.

I don't think most people would have a problem if he simply switched YT for Spotify. It's the exclusive part (ie. no more RSS based mp3 feeds, as in, the "podcast" part of the show) that people complain about.