mercedo's Journal: Slashdot.Jp.

For the first time in several months, I visited slashdot.jp site -by the way they like to abbreviate as slado instead of saying slashdot, I say slado when I refer to slashdot.jp.site, anyway, I noticed the form or template of slado came to be very similar to that of the former slashdot.org site. Slashdot.jp used to be very different from slashdot.org., but now the template is very similar, and what makes them different is only the language they used - of course in the case of slashdot.org., English is used and in the case of slado, Japanese is used.

Japanese site is getting more and more closer to that of org. site, and I hope Japanese people learn English more and more then more people are coming to take part in an international scene.

English

[Stargoat]

Sun Yat-sen recommended that China move to the Phoenician Alphabet a hundred years ago. He felt it would be better for educational purposes.

Re:English

[mercedo]

Sooner or later Japanese people have to face this reality - outside Japan no Japanese language is used (except a few), in fact just many people have been learning English extremely hard and they have fully realised English is much more superior as a tool for communication and for academic purposes too, they know they know..I think what lacks among Japanese people is 'courage' to start using English, they are generally poor at English, then they believe they have to use English as native speakers do so they

That's awesome.

[Shadow Wrought]

Its absolutely nothing to me, but I love that slado is growing internationally.

Re:That's awesome.

[mercedo]

Owing to their very limited pronounciation -basically they have only fifty syllables and combination of these ones so if they had to pronounce 'slashdot' the sound comes closer to sulashudotto and it's just hard to say so completely, then slado instead of saying sulashudotto.

I think they learn English very very hard, and owing to a culture of shame traditionally thought to be one of the very typical characterisctic among Japanese, they are just afraid of making a mistake in speaking& writing English, l

Re:That's awesome.

[Shadow Wrought]

When I was in high school we hosted a Japanese foreign exchange student for a couple of weeks. At the end of their time, the whole group of Japanese students threw a large party in honor of their families. Part of their preparation was to writie everyones name in Japanese. The student who wrote mine misread "Doug" as "Dog." Well, one of the other students realized the mistake and they were all mortified, even though I thought it was pretty funny (having had numerous people call me that and other clever