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niten

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日英特許翻訳者。豪州人。好きなテレビ番組は笑点。

Japanese to English translator (mainly patent specifications).

He/him.

niten@mstdn.jp, @_niten

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niten, to random
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my September income (= translation sales) was a bit over half of August income

but that came with me:

  • taking it easy for a couple of days after the summer heat (also read as me playing Baldur's Gate 3)
  • looking after the family after partner got covid around Sep 12
  • looking after youngest who got hand/foot/mouth disease and was mostly eating pudding and yogurt for a few days due to a mouth sore

so, pretty decent all-in-all. Partner also doing better 3 weeks later.

niten,
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@FlockOfCats I feel still money to be made in high-end finance and legal translation which needs to be correct for legal reasons, but there's MT/AI shills trying to capture work on the low end

brian, to random
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4 years later, continuing to get a chuckle out of the "Who looks down on who in Gaijin Community".

niten,
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@brian that brings back memories - do you have a link to the full pic?

FlockOfCats, to random
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Client requesting 18 kilomoji of translation for tomorrow, totes feasible!

niten,
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@takosix @FlockOfCats I’ve done about 10,000 in a 9-5 workday before, but this was specialised nonsense (patents), there was a reasonable amount of repetition, and we had a fast autocomplete system (fast in terms of keystrokes to get your output)

niten,
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@FlockOfCats good luck!

brian, to random
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Company name NULL and NULLcorp were rejected. 💀 There goes that idea. 😮‍💨

niten,
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@brian NULL 株式会社？
NULL Co., Ltd?
NULL Inc.?

Private
niten,
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@timgatewood @betaquarii @bookstodon I’m totally out of the loop, but this suggests science fiction = speculative fiction 🤔

elizabethtasker, to random
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I wore a mask for the first half of the conference last week, but with Sapporo going through a heat wave, the humidity was pretty high even inside. So… I masked less and less.

Now I have a 39C fever, a developing cough on an over-tight chest, headache and joint pains.

And… my friends… regrets.

Am now splashed on the sofa pondering the irony of getting sick while demonstrating the value of online virtual spaces.

(Covid antigen currently negative, but I guess may not stay that way.)

niten,
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@elizabethtasker look after yourself and get well soon!

DervPerv, to random

Kanji of the Day: 疇

範疇 はんちゅう category
下位範疇化原理 subcategorisation principle​
理解の範疇を超える to go over one's head

音符 (ON-reading sound key): 壽 (寿)
音の変化 (sound variants):
ジュ：寿
チュウ：疇・躊・鋳・籌
トウ：祷・濤・擣・檮
Source:
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/ishiseiji/e/ad68013da04d93caaaf4f2ce2137971a

Bonus characters:
壽 禱 鑄 譸 籌 隯 𨞪 翿
Source:
https://jigen.net/kanji/30087

niten,
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@DervPerv
same radical? as
躊躇 ちゅうちょ hesitate

niten,
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@FlockOfCats @DervPerv even if you don't want to write the kanji, I can recommend ちゅうちょ as a word to know as fancy pants authors will often use it instead of ためらう to mean hesitate

niten, to random
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any experience or advice on how to translate 炎上する in a social media context?

After something with an analytical/technical nuance rather than slang

"flaming" comes to mind, but "flame war" comes up on weblio as ののしり合戦 / 罵倒戦争 / etc. and suggests that there's not a tight overlap

JP wikipedia has 炎上（えんじょう）とは、インターネット上のコメント欄などにおいて、稚拙な批判や誹謗中傷などを含む投稿が集中することをいう
...
「否定的な意見」の方をより多く包含するものを炎上とし

So closer to "attract significant negative online attention"?

@DervPerv @YamaguchiSake @nosword

niten,
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@richardmedh @DervPerv the situation I've got is that there's already a high posting frequency and slander/誹訪中傷, the next step is 炎上, which might be referring to a "pile-on" or the "backlash" / "criticism" (from other parties)

niten,
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@richardmedh @DervPerv the wikipedia definition implies other parties are joining in, which escalates the situation from a (presumably) one-on-one argument to a many-on-one situation

The other thought I had was using something like "went viral" (in a negative sense)

niten,
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@FlockOfCats @richardmedh @DervPerv I've gone with "suffer a flood of criticism" with a suggestion for "suffer a flood of criticism from other parties"

I like "pile on", but seeing it as being slangy, so avoiding it in my (technical) context

soycamo, to random
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日本語 speakers:
when signing off on an email reply, should I use my first name or last name? (edit: for reference we're in the brief reply phase)

niten,
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@soycamo use a signature block that has your name and contact details, just finish with

どうぞよろしくお願い致します。

<signature block>

niten, to random Japanese
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Wired article: They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral

https://www.wired.com/story/social-media-privacy-consent/

Toky02, to random

What’s this fried food?

niten,
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@Toky02 fried tofu or hanpen?

elizabethtasker, to random
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Whoa. I’ve seen strawberry & milks and banana & milks… but I’ve just found a melon & milk 😳

niten,
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@elizabethtasker and you're trying it ... for science?

Please report back 🍈 🥛

niten,
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@elizabethtasker we thank you for your continued contributions to science 🧪

niten, to random Japanese
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Trialling making yogurt in an Iris Ohyama yogurt maker (around ¥5000)

niten,
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@Chanclatrix nine hours later - warm yogurt!
Tastes like the original - ppl who want it sweet would want to add sugar or honey.
We’ll try it again tomorrow morning

niten,
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@LetsBuild @pippa @Chanclatrix it essentially an incubator that allows you to keep a specific temp for a certain period of time, so it can probably be used for other things

niten,
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@FlockOfCats @LetsBuild @pippa @Chanclatrix mebbe? You could give it a shot

elizabethtasker, to random
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OK, this is super frustrating: In my tiredness last night, I packed the cord for my noise cancelling headphone but not the actual headphones.

My flight is tonight but it’s a 3 hour round trip to pick them up, and I’ve a chunk of work I’d like to get done instead.

Soooooo how annoying will my (long) flight be sans-headphones?

(I do have my AirPods, but they’re not the noise cancelling version.)

niten,
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@elizabethtasker splash out on a pair at the airport if you find one? I think it's worth it especially if you're tired.

niten,
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@elizabethtasker otherwise see how you go with earplugs?? Have a safe trip regardless!

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