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    Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin?
Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin?

yudantaiteki Wrote:I think there's a good possibility of it being sincere. He has other posts on his site about how Christianity supposedly reached Japan in pre-written historical times but was suppr...
Harpagornes The Japanese language 136 29,622 2014-09-27, 6:49 pm
    Thread: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so much : (
Post: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so...

yudantaiteki Wrote:If you just want translations of the words, the WWWJDIC "text glossing" feature is better than Google Translate. Thanks Yudantaiteki, Great to see that you and some of the old timer...
Harpagornes Learning resources 10 1,911 2014-09-27, 6:10 pm
    Thread: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so much : (
Post: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so...

Newbie question: How does one post an image to this forum? I gather from the BBCode that I use an img tag. Quote:If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. img]http://punbb.informer.c...
Harpagornes Learning resources 10 1,911 2014-09-27, 4:33 pm
    Thread: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so much : (
Post: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so...

Vempele Wrote:I'd expect the majority to be people who don't know the source language at all. Especially with language pairs like English-Japanese where the translation tends to be gibberish. Good poi...
Harpagornes Learning resources 10 1,911 2014-09-27, 4:29 pm
    Thread: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so much : (
Post: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so...

Nyanda Wrote:Also, just out of interest, if you are past the beginner stage how do Google Translate's sentences help you? john555 Wrote:The translations proved by Google translate aren't that great. ...
Harpagornes Learning resources 10 1,911 2014-09-27, 4:15 pm
    Thread: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so much : (
Post: I love Google Translate: It's romaji output not so...

Lets Help Improve Google Translate... : ) One of the things (the only thing really) that taints my use of Google Translate is that it outputs Japanese as romaji. Recently, I provided feedback (see be...
Harpagornes Learning resources 10 1,911 2014-09-27, 2:29 pm
    Thread: Travelling to Japan in September
Post: Travelling to Japan in September

Kewickviper Wrote:As a side question, does anyone know any super cool places that I should visit while I'm there? I only really have Tokyo and Kyoto on the list at the moment and was planning on follo...
Harpagornes General discussion 29 6,936 2012-08-20, 3:09 am
    Thread: Using the Japanese IME
Post: Using the Japanese IME

Thanks Bokusenou. Haven't downloaded it yet but the video on the page you linked to makes typing seem like a great deal of fun. An IME from Google! Who knows what they will come up with yet. @dtcamer...
Harpagornes The Japanese language 81 60,524 2012-08-20, 2:48 am
    Thread: Using the Japanese IME
Post: Using the Japanese IME

Just got a new iMac with OS 10.7 installed on it and I am struggling with the Japanese IME that came bundled with it. Searching Google has bought up plenty of websites explaining how to do the basics ...
Harpagornes The Japanese language 81 60,524 2012-08-19, 3:19 pm
    Thread: Japanese Alternative/Punk/Hardcore
Post: Japanese Alternative/Punk/Hardcore

Aural Vampire - Isn't that a girl band : )
Harpagornes Off topic 13 2,909 2012-06-09, 4:24 pm
    Thread: Japanese Alternative/Punk/Hardcore
Post: Japanese Alternative/Punk/Hardcore

明和電気! Not punk. Definitely alt, but not quite the alt perhaps the OP was looking for. I like their engineer shtick and also the fact they build robots to play their songs for them. Conceptually inte...
Harpagornes Off topic 13 2,909 2012-06-09, 2:58 pm
    Thread: Japanese Alternative/Punk/Hardcore
Post: Japanese Alternative/Punk/Hardcore

Don't know anything about the bands listed here: http://www.hellodamage.com/top/gekiteki-rock/ At a casusual glance however, and I am not an expert in this matter, none of them appear to be J-pop. ...
Harpagornes Off topic 13 2,909 2012-06-09, 2:28 pm
    Thread: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestions?
Post: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestion...

Re: JimmySeal. Quite agree, and certainly won't be afflicting 押竜 on any Japanese people soon. That said, I quite like the image of the 引篭り (or, let's be honest here: myself) emerging from from his /he...
Harpagornes The Japanese language 9 2,999 2012-06-04, 2:56 pm
    Thread: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestions?
Post: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestion...

Ah...Now I see! Thank you CJ, I wasn't quite sure of the kana having only heard it referred to in transliteration.
Harpagornes The Japanese language 9 2,999 2012-06-03, 10:13 am
    Thread: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestions?
Post: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestion...

OK, all that is maybe too much to ask. Does anyone know how to spell kiyosaku in Japanese however? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Harpagornes The Japanese language 9 2,999 2012-06-03, 2:51 am
    Thread: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestions?
Post: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestion...

Hi Everyone, If anyone knows of a good source for zen related vocabulary I would like to know it. I am also interested in obtaining A Japanese version of the liturgy (The four vows, the heart sutra, ...
Harpagornes The Japanese language 9 2,999 2012-06-02, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Hilarious Photo?
Post: Hilarious Photo?

Aha, Chinese... I thought as much. I must say I admire your ability to read the mystic brushstrokes. Now that you have typed out the characters I actually recognize most of them and can even guess at ...
Harpagornes Off topic 17 3,805 2012-02-24, 4:17 pm
    Thread: Hilarious Photo?
Post: Hilarious Photo?

A quick question for the experts: What do the characters on the hanging scroll say?
Harpagornes Off topic 17 3,805 2012-02-24, 2:39 am
    Thread: This guy = the man
Post: This guy = the man

I like Honyaku Joshua's posts... Surely diversity of opinion (and posting style) is welcome. I am impressed by Alex Rawlings. Even if his skills are somewhat exaggerated (which is probably not someth...
Harpagornes Off topic 112 19,939 2012-02-24, 2:33 am
    Thread: Kanji to Keyword
Post: Kanji to Keyword

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8976 Haven't tried it, but this could be what you are after. You can read about it on this 2008 thread here. http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=5114#pid51...
Harpagornes Remembering the Kanji 13 4,842 2012-01-21, 12:11 am
    Thread: I'm getting really stressed out on wanting to learn japanese.
Post: I'm getting really stressed out on wanting to lear...

Good luck with Japanese. It's a long term commitment so don't feel you have to do it all at once. Have you seen Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners thread? It has some handy resources and adv...
Harpagornes Learning resources 137 19,230 2012-01-16, 1:01 am
    Thread: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on the internet)?
Post: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on th...

@Betelguzah Agree with your list of things best funded by the goverment: Would also add defense, policing, education, conservation, some arts and some scientific research. Feel exasperated by endless ...
Harpagornes General discussion 204 49,054 2012-01-14, 2:29 pm
    Thread: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on the internet)?
Post: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on th...

it is quite easy to imagine market economy which is terrible for women: trafficking, prostitution, and exploited Chinese factory workers come to mind.
Harpagornes General discussion 204 49,054 2012-01-14, 10:19 am
    Thread: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on the internet)?
Post: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on th...

I think the question isn't that the markets need regulation but in what form, and how much. I am not a fan of Keynesian pump priming / big government spending either, and agree most things are best ...
Harpagornes General discussion 204 49,054 2012-01-14, 10:05 am
    Thread: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on the internet)?
Post: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on th...

Back to Capitalism: Because IceCream is a primatologist, I thought I would mention a BBC documentary I heard about the dwindling numbers of critically endangered orangutan in Kalimantan. These are bei...
Harpagornes General discussion 204 49,054 2012-01-14, 7:06 am
    Thread: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on the internet)?
Post: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on th...

I'll throw this Atlantic Monthly article into the debate. It's an interesting read and suggests that the 21st century work environment may be better suited for women and that this will cause proble...
Harpagornes General discussion 204 49,054 2012-01-14, 12:00 am
    Thread: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on the internet)?
Post: Where is a good place to find Japanese women(on th...

@OP I came across this thread from the Guardian newspaper (UK) which suggests that you should be careful for what you wish for. I am sure that the Internet is full of similar stories. EDIT: In the l...
Harpagornes General discussion 204 49,054 2012-01-13, 9:54 pm
    Thread: fugu 河豚 - help me find
Post: fugu 河豚 - help me find

Are there any hotels where you could ask at reception? I don't think fugu should be too hard to find although I am not familiar with Okinawa. I take it that you are eating this, not for reasons of ga...
Harpagornes Off topic 3 1,100 2012-01-06, 11:27 pm
    Thread: Naming (me)
Post: Naming (me)

@thistime This was during the late 1980s... At that time I always thought it was because the men had taken up residency (through marriage) but had not received citizenship as that would mean renounc...
Harpagornes General discussion 22 5,820 2012-01-04, 3:18 pm
    Thread: I'm finding it difficult to remember several keywords
Post: I'm finding it difficult to remember several keywo...

Betelgeuzah Wrote:more often than I'd like to admit I can't recall keywords when looking at a kanji. I can remember the story surrounding it but the word itself just doesn't click. I wouldn't worry a...
Harpagornes Remembering the Kanji 7 2,156 2012-01-04, 7:29 am