http://www.due-east.org Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:54:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.due-east.org/2011/06/09/chengdu-living-five-must-see-websites-to-advance-your-chinese/ http://www.due-east.org/2011/06/09/chengdu-living-five-must-see-websites-to-advance-your-chinese/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:17:59 +0000 Due-East http://www.due-east.org/?p=658   Chengdu Living just posted an article entitled Five Must-See Websites to Advance Your Chinese. If your Chinese has become stagnant, why not check it out?   ]]>     Chengdu Living just posted an article entitled Five Must-See Websites to Advance Your Chinese. If your Chinese has become stagnant, why not check it out?   ]]> http://www.due-east.org/2011/06/09/chengdu-living-five-must-see-websites-to-advance-your-chinese/feed/ 1 http://www.due-east.org/2008/08/04/chinglish-the-perils-of-computer-translation/ http://www.due-east.org/2008/08/04/chinglish-the-perils-of-computer-translation/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:50:31 +0000 Due-East http://www.due-east.org/2008/08/04/chinglish-the-perils-of-computer-translation/     If you’re going to rely on a computer translation to name your restaurant in a foreign tongue, it’s probably best to follow these simple rules:

• Know enough of the target language to understand if your translation is at least somewhere in the general vicinity of being halfway near the point of possibly a tad bit close to what even unintelligent people may consider accurate.
• If you’re NOT familiar enough with the target language to do that, find someone that speaks the language and pantomime somehow to him that you’re trying to name your restaurant according to this translation. If he laughs or looks disturbed, it’s probably a good idea to try again with the translation.
• At least know enough about computers to know the difference between an error message and a valid translation.

  Link to source article ]]> http://www.due-east.org/2008/08/04/chinglish-the-perils-of-computer-translation/feed/ 0 http://www.due-east.org/2008/03/16/the-evolution-of-indo-european-languages/ http://www.due-east.org/2008/03/16/the-evolution-of-indo-european-languages/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:36:17 +0000 Due-East http://www.due-east.org/2008/03/17/the-evolution-of-indo-european-languages/ Click here for a larger image (sorry, nothing hi-res).   Here’s something cool I recently came across in my web surfing. I’ve always found it really interesting to learn exactly how the languages we speak today evolved from earlier forms, so when I found this chart online, I thought I had come across the [...]]]>  
Click here for a larger image (sorry, nothing hi-res).   Here’s something cool I recently came across in my web surfing. I’ve always found it really interesting to learn exactly how the languages we speak today evolved from earlier forms, so when I found this chart online, I thought I had come across the coolest thing ever…until I realized that it was only a chart of the origins of Indo-European languages and didn’t cover Southeast Asia at all. Poop. Still, it’s pretty interesting, so I thought I’d share it here. Enjoy!   ]]> http://www.due-east.org/2008/03/16/the-evolution-of-indo-european-languages/feed/ 0