On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:12:28 -0000 ... Just out of curiosity, what are 2) held-to-maturity securities and 3) avaiable-for-sale securities called in Japanese? ...
Jim Lockhart
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Jun 1, 2001 7:01 am
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-- Jim Lockhart <caa31390@p...>$B$5$s$N%a%C%;!<%8(B [snip] ... 2) $BK~4|J]M-L\E*EyM-2A>Z7t(B 3) $B$=$NB>M-2A>Z7t(B (although I have seen this translated,...
paihwong@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:22 am
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... To-infinitive". ... I am not a native speaker of English but anyway this appears to me as "personal style" of the proof-reader (you wrote "some"...
Uwe Hirayama
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Jun 1, 2001 7:26 am
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Kanematsu$BMM(B ... "wired components with axial connections"$B$G!V%"%-%7%c%k%j!<%IItIJ!W(B $B$N$3$H$G$9!#C1$K!V%"%-%7%c%kItIJ!W$H$$$$$^$9!#(B Wired...
Yuno Hanlon
yuno.hanlon@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:50 am
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... FWIW, one Japanese company uses "The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications" as its style guide. The Microsoft guide says of the _verb_...
April Glenday
jbc@...
Jun 1, 2001 8:09 am
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... Wow ! My example. 854 characters = USD 404.00 = 47 cents / character = $1.00 (?) / word? Wow, wow, and double-wow. File name test.doc Number of words 854 ...
Hendry Michael
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Jun 1, 2001 8:55 am
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... I'm not sure who is missing what here, but.... As far as I know, the construction "a method to do s.t.", as in the example "We have invented a method to...
chandler@...
Jun 1, 2001 9:03 am
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... Another native English speaker chiming in . . . That sounds very odd to me too. Replace "method" with "way" and my ears are much happier. Peter Durfee...
Peter Durfee
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Jun 1, 2001 9:14 am
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Many thanks to everyone for the suggestions for $BK\It(B. I realize now that I didn't make one thing clear in my original post: The company had asked me to...
Tom Gally
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Jun 1, 2001 10:29 am
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Natalya Shatalova in Dubai, planning to move to Canada, asked for advice ... If you've been away from Japanese for a while, then you might not know about the...
Tom Gally
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Jun 1, 2001 11:02 am
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... There was an internet-based course run by the University of Hawaii. I don't know if it's on this year (David Ashworth is the best person to answer...). ...
Yuno Hanlon
yuno.hanlon@...
Jun 1, 2001 11:58 am
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home appliance$B$^$?$O(Bhousehold...
Yutaka Fujioka
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Jun 1, 2001 12:21 pm
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... You made me wonder about the word "appliance," so I looked it up. It specifies "especially an electrical device." Maybe that means gas stoves don't count. ...
Paul Flint
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Jun 1, 2001 12:29 pm
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... I won't comment about sexism, but here in Britain there are probably more men involved in literary translation (from all languages) than women. But Minoru...
David Powers
david.powers@...
Jun 1, 2001 12:46 pm
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-- Paul Flint $B$;$s$;$$$N%a%C%;!<%8(B ... Thank you, Sir. But "especially an electrical device" doesn't exclude a gas device, does it? According to the...
... Uh, I don't think it is a stone's throw (?) from the Stock Exchange, even for Ichiro. I've been to TransPerfect's office and I believe it is not too far ...
Minoru Mochizuki
minoru.mochizuki@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:22 pm
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... Depending on which way the wind is blowing, I would say yes. It excludes everything that is not "especially an electrical device." ... Webster's II New...
Paul Flint
flintpa@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:25 pm
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... I agree. But why do we say "a way to do" and not "a method to do"? This is why I say that, where idioms are concerned, English is a garbage language. A...
Jon Johanning
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Jun 1, 2001 1:42 pm
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... I think that you need to get a few more points on your graph before deciding which way the wind has blown. <g> Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary...
Steven P. Venti
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Jun 1, 2001 1:52 pm
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... No. The word "appliances" is normally used to mean "electrical (home/household) appliances." It's a matter of convention. ... No. The appliance is...
Minoru Mochizuki
minoru.mochizuki@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:53 pm
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... Nice marketing tool! RR...
Ray Roman
jblt@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:02 pm
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... I also think that the "stagehand" meaning is the principal one here, and it is an interesting metaphor for translation, but since the context referred to...
Jon Johanning
jjohanning@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:04 pm
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... Right. I've come home after a brief absence, answered a phone message from one of their coordinators that is time-stamped only a half-hour previously, and...
Karen Sandness
ksand@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:37 pm
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Yutaka Fujioka asks-- ... Perhaps a treadle-operated sewing machine? These may make a comeback in California. Adam Rice | adamrice@... Austin TX USA...
Adam Rice
adamrice@...
Jun 1, 2001 3:41 pm
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... <cough hack cough> Ahem. Very educational. I guess they need to charge more to defray the costs of that fancy Trados software. On the sample job I...
Adam Rice
adamrice@...
Jun 1, 2001 3:41 pm
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... I can't resist: Kerosene-burning stoves, wood-burning stoves, coal-burning stoves, solar water heaters, crystal radios, wind-up phonographs and any other...
Richard L. Peterson
richpete@...
Jun 1, 2001 4:41 pm
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Don't you think that their aim may be only to capture information about potential clients (e-mail address) or that their software may be faulty? They just...
BIK Information Servi...
bi@...
Jun 1, 2001 4:58 pm
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... Odd that you should think so. I find that the irregular and irrational features of a language are among its most interesting. ... Regards, Jerome Conway...
Jerome Conway
jjconway@...
Jun 1, 2001 5:14 pm
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... Thanks for an interesting piec of data. I recently met a Japanese gentleman who lives in New York and is known as a literary translator in a meeting in...
