http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/rss kitashi's latest journal entries Lang-8 Inc. Wed Jun 19 21:04:04 UTC 2013 Wed Jun 19 21:04:04 UTC 2013 Lang-8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lang-8 "I can only do so many things in one day."

I think this means "There is a limitation on the number of things that I can do in one day." Is this right?

Another example from the Internet:
"I hate how you can only fit so many letters in making a fan page."
What does this mean?

Thanks!

Posted at Wed Feb 08 13:02:27 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/1305487 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/1305487 kitashi Wed Feb 08 13:02:27 UTC 2012
After the exam was finished, I went straight to Matsuyama airport and made a flight to Haneda, Tokyo. Then I came to here, Narita city. (Surely I had set the schedule too tightly.) I stay here tonight, and yesterday I'm going to go to Atlanta.

行ってきます！

Posted at Sat Jul 23 14:55:09 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/1024211 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/1024211 kitashi Sat Jul 23 14:55:09 UTC 2011 I wonder whether that is a correct use of the word or a kind of 'Japanglish'.

My questions are:
(1) For example, "I am a creator of that poster." is natural sentence. Right?
(2) If someone says "I am a Creator." when he introduce himself in English, are you think it's strange?
(3) "I am a creator" never means "I am God", does it? (I know "the Creator" means God.)

Is my understanding correct?

Posted at Tue Jul 05 16:10:23 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/1000494 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/1000494 kitashi Tue Jul 05 16:10:23 UTC 2011
Very far from the area struck, there is almost nothing I can do now. What can we do...?



BTW, I saw @RachaelLCook wrote "If you make a Godzilla joke now, I will totally block you." in her Twitter. I'm not sure why people talk about Godzilla, but maybe that's not good thing in this situation.


Posted at Fri Mar 11 14:53:13 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/843653 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/843653 kitashi Fri Mar 11 14:53:13 UTC 2011
Below is a sample of the exam, which I translated from Japanese to English. (In fact, this is an 'easier' sample. Actual exam sentences are much longer and harder.)

--
The size of Venus is almost equal to the earth. Venus is 12,100 km (7,500 miles) in diameter.
Venus might seems to like the earth in its size. However, it is considerably different in other respects. First, Venus rotates clockwise, or same direction as clock hands. All other planets of the solar system rotate counter-clockwise, except Venus.
--

Please correct this, and please re-translate into Japanese if you want to try:-)

Posted at Mon Feb 07 15:02:37 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/799277 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/799277 kitashi Mon Feb 07 15:02:37 UTC 2011 I wrote the message below in a BBS today. Would someone correct this, please?

お久し振りです！
下記のメッセージを、とある掲示板に書きました。どなたか校正していただけませんか？

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I'm sorry to reply late, and thank you for giving a chance to implement the feature that you don't like so much.
I understand what you talked about the dependency. I hope people won't complain.

By the way, if a page has been rotated, currently the manual content box looks to be in a wrong position, although their coordinates are same.
It is because the position of the origin and the center of rotation of a page are different.
(I think Mellow-Yellow's method above has same problem.)
I'm now trying to fix this.
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（日本語訳）
返事が遅くなってすいません、そしてあなたがあまり好きではない機能を実装する機会を与えてくれてありがとう。
あなたが dependency について述べた内容は理解しました。みんなが文句を言わないことを望みます。

ところで、もしページが回転していたら、現在は manual content box は間違った場所にあるように見えます。座標は正しいにも関わらずです。
なぜならあるページの原点と回転の中心とは異なるからです。
（Mellow-Yellow による上記の方法も同じ問題があると思います。）
今これを直そうと頑張っています。
----

Thank you!
よろしくおねがいします！


Posted at Thu Jan 20 15:43:38 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/774065 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/774065 kitashi Thu Jan 20 15:43:38 UTC 2011 It took an hour from Kagoshima airport to Osaka international airport. I had heavy headache during the airplane was going down.

The headache came back repeatedly in the afternoon, though I had already been on the ground. Even in the evening.
Did I get a cold? I should sleep enough...

Posted at Tue Aug 03 15:53:18 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/575845 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/575845 kitashi Tue Aug 03 15:53:18 UTC 2010 I went to the National Museum of Art, Osaka in Nakanoshima again to see an exhibition titled "the cross-sectional generation" by Tabaimo.
束芋は日本の若手女性現代芸術家で、名前は（多分）「芋を束ねたもの」という意味だ。
Tabaimo, which (maybe) means 'potatoes in a bundle', is a name of the young female modern artist of Japan.
浮世絵風の特徴的な線描画とそれをもとにしたアニメーション・インスタレーションで有名だ。
She is famous for the characteristic Ukiyoe-like drawings and animation installations based on them.

(cont'd)

Posted at Sun Aug 01 15:08:19 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/573666 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/573666 kitashi Sun Aug 01 15:08:19 UTC 2010
He is alone.

I remembered the scenes from a novel I had read, in which an artificial intelligence said "Loneliness is seven," and also an mathematician said "Here is the outside. Define them by yourself."


海の向こうからロボット掃除機が届いた。掃除を始めさせて家を出た。

彼は孤独だ。

孤独は、ナナです。という人工知能の台詞を思い出した。ここが外側だ。自分で決めるんだ。という数学者の台詞も。

(20100123)


Posted at Wed Jul 21 14:45:32 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/562562 http://www.lang-8.com/157974/journals/562562 kitashi Wed Jul 21 14:45:32 UTC 2010