The link to the GitHub directory is near the bottom of the page! GitHubディレクトリのリンクは本ページの下側にあります。 Creating an Extension that Converts Between Kyūjitai/Shinjitai and Historical/Modern Kana Orthography The extension’s GUI Introduction This post may be seen as a follow-up post on traditional kana orthography and kyūjitai that I made this time last last year. In it, I created a […]
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Hanayama Dam. By Qurren under the under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Another dam project, this time on the Hanayama Dam in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. This project is probably the longest article I have translated so far and had a few challenges, notably finding appropriate English terms, that had to be
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The download button is near the bottom of the page!ダウンロードボタンはページの下側にあります。 Update: Dynamic Converter Extension Now Available I have managed to modify an existing Google Chrome extension originally made for converting Simplified/Traditional Chinese to make it work for Japanese kanji and kana (note that the kana convert functionality can cause lag on more complex webpages). See
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Futai Dam. By Qurren under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Another day another dam. Wait, that’s not how the saying goes. In any case, it seems I like doing dams as well as pottery articles! We’ll see how the trend goes from here, but this time sees me doing a volunteer Wikipedia
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While I never anticipated translating another article about pottery so soon, here I am. This article is about Akogi ware (阿漕焼 Akogi-yaki), a type of pottery near Mie, Japan. While not having as long of a history as my previous article on Akazu ware, the project was still very enjoyable to do. More Knowledge on
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All images from the “SCP Foundation” Wikidot service A work of fiction, yet still using technical terms. What an interesting change of pace! This piece of work not only saw me using technical terminology, it also saw me playing around with Wikidot’s (a wiki service much like Wikipedia) formatting structure, similar but in many ways different
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Chiya Dam view from the front. By Phronimosx under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Dams. Certainly not the most glamorous subject, but still quite the feat of engineering! This project saw me volunteer translate on Wikipedia an article about Chiya Dam in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Chiya Dam view from lakeside. By Phronimosx under the Creative
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Image from Wikipedia Translation brings you down many interesting paths where you are encouraged, if not forced, to learn about a veritable cornucopia of different subject areas and disciplines. In this article, I discuss the process of volunteer translating a brief Wikipedia article on Japanese Akazu ware, a type of pottery located near Seto. Image from Wikipedia
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