Cost in translation

by **Doctor Stop** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:36 pm

Gal With a Suitcase but not much brains wrote:3G now works here.

Well, Japan has has almost ten years to work out the bugs. Hire a fact checker, Beast, or better yet a whole bunch of them.

by **Taro Toporific** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:05 pm

by **Mock Cockpit** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:32 pm

by **Taro Toporific** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:04 am

Mock Cockpit wrote:I'm sorry dear, but you appear to be dead.

The writer is not dead....Just 'tarded.

Gal With a Suitcase
thedailybeast.com/author/jolie-hunt/
Our new travel columnist...

by **bornbitter** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:49 am

I hate the view of Japan from the outside even more than I do the view from inside.

by **prolly** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:28 am

oh christ, another one of those "in between" idiots. please, someone drag her into the street and set her on fire.

by **Greji** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:32 am

Taro Toporific wrote:

Global Head? Does that mean she swallows?
:confused:

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:36 am

Greji wrote:Global Head? Does that mean she swallows?

I was kinda hoping it meant she gives it to everyone in the world....

by **Greji** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:39 am

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:I was kinda hoping it meant she gives it to everyone in the world....

As long as the list includes me, I don't care if it's the entire red army with a man in motion....
:cool:

by **BigInJapan** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:41 pm

by **Iraira** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:53 pm

BigInJapan wrote:Really? Sure, if you stay at the Hyatt, and travel by taxi around Roppongi etc. you are bound to run into people in the service industry that have at least rudimentary English skills. But c'mon, fluent?

Taxi Cab Driver: Where you from?
Global Head Girl: I live between New York and London.
Taxi Cab Driver: Do you like sushi?
Global Head Girl: I absolutely adore sushi, especially meguro.
Taxi Cab Driver: You see Fuji-san?
Global Head Girl: Ummmm, who's that? Oh, you mean the mountain? Yes, it is very beautiful.
Taxi Cab Driver: This is winter, Japan is four seasons.
Global Head Girl: I'm staying at the Hyatt, not the Four Seasons. To get to the hotel....Takai neh?
Taxi Cab Driver: ??????????

Fluency

by **Mock Cockpit** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:27 pm

The comments section is full of people calling her an idiot.

by **Screwed-down Hairdo** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:41 pm

Mock Cockpit wrote:The comments section is full of people calling her an idiot.

This comment was great!

Jolie Hunt's "report" on her jolly hunt in Tokyo says a lot about the quality of Thompson Reuters, Financial Times and IBM if she's managed to secure such fancy sounding positions at these firms....

by **Mike Oxlong** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:03 pm

by **Mulboyne** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:00 pm

I run into about two cab drivers a year with reasonable English. If they don't actually say anything up front, a good clue is if they retune the car radio to AFN-Japan when you get in. They are mostly older men of the kind who used to pester Greji for Hershey bars when they were kids. One guy spoke some English because he had gone to the Philiipines to find his second wife.

by **wuchan** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:06 pm

Mulboyne wrote:I run into about two cab drivers a year with reasonable English. If they don't actually say anything up front, a good clue is if they retune the car radio to AFN-Japan when you get in. They are mostly older men of the kind who used to pester Greji for Hershey bars when they were kids. One guy spoke some English because he had gone to the Philiipines to find his second wife.

by **Yokohammer** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:12 pm

I'm really glad that people on this and other forums are calling this moron out on what is just a half-assed, finger-up-nose effort. She was probably just here for the shopping, and scrawled her "report" on a sick bag on the flight home. I hope the feedback gets back to her and her publisher(s), with appropriate consequences. This crap might have worked 25 years ago, but not in an age when there are plenty of serious English-language reporters/writers residing in the country, and when Internet scrutiny is bound to swing around and kick you in the ass if you get even the tiniest detail wrong (and even if you don't).

Jeez that was dumb. :doh:

by **Coligny** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:10 pm

Greji wrote:As long as the list includes me, I don't care if it's the entire red army with a man in motion....

Great, just great, so this time I will not just have greiji sloppy second but the entire red army too... can you bath her after at least ? or I don't know put her back away wet but at least under the rain ?

Should have woke up earlier... (as I was also fracked for a ebay auction...)

FUCK YOU SUNDAY... FUCK YOU DAY OF INFAMY...

by **Greji** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:00 pm

Coligny wrote:Great, just great, so this time I will not just have greiji sloppy second but the entire red army too... can you bath her after at least ?

Well, I normally try to throw a bucket of water on her on the way out the door to keep the dust down...

FUCK YOU SUNDAY... FUCK YOU DAY OF INFAMY...

Excellent definition of any day following Saturday night....
:cool:

by **sublight** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:53 pm

Man, those comments are brutal. Not a single one that isn't calling her article a steaming piece of crap.

Of course, she deserves every bit of it, it's just rare to see that level of agreement on the Internet.

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