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I’m doing an early post tonight, because I’m gearing up to go to Boston tomorrow for MIT’s puzzle-solving competition, Mystery Hunt. I’ll be gone all weekend, but I should be able to eek out some sort of post for Monday morning. I’ll be away from all of my books, though, so it’s anybody’s guess what […]

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As a special treat for those of you who are reading this post at work, stuck in a job that you hate, the word I’d like to share today is 脱サラ.

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I’m buried in game translation work right now, so this’ll be a short post.
First off, I’d like to thank you again for your input about ふりがな display. I’ve decided to do it in the mouse hover style from now on- that way you can more easily think about what the reading is before you cheat […]

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Pre-post note: I’m trying something different in this post: hover your mouse over any non-basic kanji to get its reading. (I got this idea from Tae Kim’s weblog, which I discovered a couple of days ago and highly recommend.) This is one possible alternative to putting ふりがな in parentheses. Which do you like better, and […]

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In English, we have the word "hypocrite," which is defined by dictionary.com as follows:
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one […]

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