Comments on: Small Victory

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:21:28 +0000

Many people have lamented that my blog has not yet taken a turn for the
sexy. Ha ha. Alas, it is still rather tame.

You're totally right about attitudes about nudity on television, too. I
remember being quite immaturely delighted / shocked to discover during my
first trip abroad (to Italy) that drinking water commercials consisted of
slow motion shots of pouring said water onto a nude model. Sex sells. Of
course, it helps if people bat their eyelids. Hmmm. But if I'm honest, the
discovery that gelato was sold by the cone size, not the amount of frozen
deliciousness, was the overwhelming best. Buy a small cone, get it stacked
to the sky. Mmmm. Forget about silly naked lady drinking water. Ha ha.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:10:31 +0000

This post popped up in my Google Reader feed thingy as per usual, but as I was in Germany at the time and viewing it on a German computer, the usual ads that Google inserts were regionally specific. And very German. I'm not sure what it was advertising, but right at the top of the page was a fairly large picture of a lady in a state of undress. Nothing too revealing, but definitely rather risque. For a moment I thought your blog had taken a turn for the sexy Deas.

Very much different attitudes over there. I saw a commercial for a shower gel on daytime TV which featured topless women. No one batted an eye lid.

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:39:22 +0000

You know what, I didn't know that! Thanks! I love connections.

By: JLJZen

JLJZen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:21:50 +0000

Good catch! You probably already know this, but the 免 in 懲戒免職 is also used in the kanji for ご免. It is, of course, rarely written, but you sometimes you see it in movie 字幕

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:21:28 +0000

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:10:31 +0000

Very much different attitudes over there. I saw a commercial for a shower gel on daytime TV which featured topless women. No one batted an eye lid.

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:39:22 +0000

You know what, I didn't know that! Thanks! I love connections.

By: JLJZen

JLJZen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:21:50 +0000

Good catch! You probably already know this, but the 免 in 懲戒免職 is also used in the kanji for ご免. It is, of course, rarely written, but you sometimes you see it in movie 字幕

By: Deas

Deas — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:32:21 +0000

You're picky. I'm not using standard romanization, obviously. I shift pretty
continuously for the purposes of this blog, actually. And since the
romanizations are given for people who cannot read Japanese characters, who
might read "si" as "sih" or "ti" as "tee," I use spelling that I feel more
appropriately represent the glides and slides of pronunciation. It also
gives hints about the spelling. But thanks for taking an entry about my
small victory with kanji and turning it into an opportunity to criticize
what you see as a fault in my Japanese. Cheers.

By: your friend

your friend — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:08:52 +0000

not “shyanai” just shanai
“menshyoku shyobun” just menshoku shobun
not shyokuin —-shokuin

etc…