Sapmagic (Ed Altorfer)

Anyone want to run 3-4 miles tomorrow morning in Venice/SM?

The worst writing system in the world is Japanese, and it's not close. Even the Japanese are well aware. My childhood friend has worked as a Japanese-to-English translator in and out of Japan for 50 years and has plenty of dire stories. In the GIF below, there is a scene from Spirited Away in which when the witch removes the second syllable in her name, "Chihiro" is changed to "Sen". Which of course makes no sense because Japanese. My friend told me of a civil court case in America in which the attorney asked him how to pronounce a certain person's name, and he had to say, "I don't know." The attorney mocked his translation skills, and my friend explained that for much of Japanese Kanji, you cannot know the pronunciation until you hear it spoken, because there are multiple possibilities.

Snow falls. And new love begins. The Boyfriend returns JANUARY 13. Ten new singles set upon snowy Hokkaido for unexpected reunions, misunderstandings, and moments where love and friendship blur.