Category: Insights

  • The meaning of Arigato Gojaimashita

    Some time ago I had promised somewhere that I would tell you the meaning of Arigato Gojaimasu which is very popularly translated as Thank (you) very much. But it isn’t clear. Even with the analysis that I found somewhere and truncated it to my own understanding coming from my own experiences in Japan I would…

  • sloppy Physics explainers

    We had a very interesting discussion that had sprouted in the wake of a new bump found by the CDF experiment. As usual everyone threw his tantrums at the possible explanations.  (but makes me insanely irksome if the understanding reflects poor or negative “not even wrong” Physics knowledge and/or a propensity to jump the wagon…

  • Freely inspired raccoon.

    Freely inspired raccoon.

    And we are all, the social guardians on twitter given to watch it do it all. We are inspired, some of us, like the small entity itself. We are given or occupied or motivated by an inspiration to figure out all the little crazy things the racoon does. We want to find out why, what…

  • useful sites for learning Japanese

    http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/Japanese/index.html http://nihongo.anthonet.com/ http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/Suru.asp?Prefix=benkyou&English=study http://www.timwerx.net/home/index.htm (see Japanese language section) http://home.inter.net/kenbutler/cyber.html http://japanese.about.com/ http://www.urbandictionary.com/ http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/index.html

  • Let’s learn some translation !!

    So I am tempted to remark before the agglutination (mixing of phonetic units), many languages were linked through same rule and similar sound softness and length albeit differed in their effective existence, but after mixing look different. the ” a’chhi ” of odia was actually ” a’chi ” which was as soft as “aru” and…