#musicbrainz

I despaired so much that I just copied it exactly and never looked at it again

that I don't mind

(I assume you mean original Japanese releases)

someone had ' 鶺鴒~seki-ray~' transliterated as 'Rankai ~seki ray~'. o_O; RLY? IT'S RIGHT THERE ALREADY! lol

Japanese speakers can romanize their language however the heck they want

th1rtyf0ur: rofl

well, an overseas release

one of Neo_Player's romanizations was Bishou Mu (for 微笑む)

I facepalmed

nikki: that's just bad spelling :)

and it was full of errors, like missing letters and stuff

ha

so not just a romanisation variant I don't like, but actually wrong :P

oh well if it's an overseas release, that's stupid, but what can you do

it's "official"

if I had ￥100 for every time I saw SARAD BAR, or LANCH MENU, or CACKTAILS...

well normally we would correct typos on official releases

CACKTAILS lol

but figuring where to stop was impossible :P

nikki: well, it's not really a typo, if it's supposed to be a transliteration

actually saw 'rum & coke' listed as 'ram & cock' once. roflmao

or maybe it was 'ram & cook'

I think leaving the last character of the word out counts as a typo :P

so, what % of MB regulars read Japanese/work on JP releases? seems unusually high XD

I don't know about the percentage, but we do have an abnormally high interest in japanese music

japan is a musical country, what can I say

... though we mostly focus on, like, merchandise-mill anime music

japan is also nearly as OCD as we are about cataloguing their data

especially considering how many native speakers we have... the ratio is completely different from most other countries

MB and japan... we *understand* each other :P

then why do we only have like 2-3 japanese editors lol

and heh, yeah

hehe https://musicbrainz.org/statistics/languages-sc... second :P

nikki what's going on with the localization?

not a lot?

:(

it's on transifex, if anyone wants to translate it, they're welcome to join there :P

ha, nice

2 klingon releases, ha

nikki: really? I figured people only want native speakers

I'm not sure what we want :/

I mean, a fairly fluent non-native translation is a lot better than english

re the OCD, I have noticed a tendency for Japanese people to have 1 main hobby/interest that they pour all their effort into, instead of being dabblers in a lot of things

MOAR DESU

yeah, given how few natives we have and how few we're likely to continue to have while we don't have a japanese version, it could well be better :P

but we (and by "we" I probably mean "I") should probably work on getting translations on the main server so they can actually be beneficial to a broad audience :P

I mean, even natives make mistakes :P

I might help sometime then

maybe I could try not-so-subtly pimping MB on mixi :D

someone was translating there and misunderstood "edit note" as actually editing a note, not a note attached to an edit

oh god http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tenjho_Ten...

"approximate translation" my ass

approx translation = enable rikaichan & translate each word individually, then smack 'em together :D

dude

even in rikaichan you can hit shift to look at enamdict

heh

only in ff. for some reason it doesn't work in chrome

dictionary isn't migrated or something. at least not on my home computer

well, don't use chrome then ;)

ha

god, I was supposed to go to bed at 10 pm and now it's 3 am

damn you, Neo_Player!

nikki: joined ja trans team

i assume the forms are disabled until I'm approved?

yeah

but I just approved it :P

k thx :)

Now download your ja knowledge to my brain!

is there a quick way to see where the keywords are used in context on mb?

like, 'Subdivision' could refer to several things

not really, though that's presumably an area type

there's often details with contexts, and you can look at the filenames to get a hint (things starting with root/ will generally roughly follow the URL scheme)

could also refer to label branches, though, which would probably use a different word

look up some of the things marked as that, on wikipedia

then see the corresponding article on japanese wiki

can also just ask in here or something

ok- attributes/Subdivision - area or company/branch?

last word left :)

area

k

look in the "more details" section next time, also

you'll see in there Occurrences: DB:area_type/name:2 as well as Context: area_type

ah cool

which I think would presumably have made it clear it's talking about an area type XD

hadn't noticed that yet

thanks

yeah, especially in attributes you'll probably need it

there's something like 8 different 'Other' strings

for example XD

there weren't many left in that section

For those of you who speak Japanese as a learned language, how do you practice kanji knowledge?

used to read manga, but haven't in a while

Leftmost: don't practice kanji, practice vocabulary

that & tweeting in japanese, & reading japanese tweets

to do otherwise is to put the cart before the horse

true

flamingspinach, of course. I need to practice both, really, but my kanji reading/writing is in even worse shape than my vocabulary, which isn't doing so hot anyhow.

Leftmost: also, join ##japanese and practice there ;)

And I don't have a good way to do either.

my girlfriend generally just does it by way of reading, etc.

personally I don't care about handwriting and IMHO you shouldn't either (unless calligraphy is a hobby of yours)

of course it helps that she's a big fan of one of the idol groups and there's a wide variety of blogs and things to read on the topic. but :P

learning to read kanji is waaaay easier than learning to write them

lol idols

and yeah, certainly

oh gawd XD

I'm not trying to write perfectly, and I can generally tell how to write a character if I can read it. It was a secondary concern, though.

Some sort of framework for improving vocabulary and kanji reading would be incredibly helpful, though.

I've been listening to an idol song on repeat since yesterday, it's so good

oh wait, did I sai an idol song? I meant a hilarious complete reimagining of an idol song by a wizard bassist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdaLG1eHy14

*say

I wish idol music was actually like this

As long as it isn't Heisig, which I found completely useless for me.

lol heisig

mnemonics are stupid imo

especially the embarrassingly bad made up ones heisig has

presumably the way to do it is just standard memorization tools

When I took Japanese at university here, one of my professors loved Heisig. It made me angry.

make yourself some anki decks and get cracking :P

honestly I got too lazy to really stick with anki

not that I'm good at following that advice, but

but I get along mostly ok

spend more time reading and less on organizing your anki deck, and you just might come out better off

haha

I don't have the foggiest how to find reading materials appropriate for me.

Ranma has furigana XD

just look up every word you're not familiar with, & over time, you won't have to as often

Leftmost: IRC is handy that way

yeah, I mean, act like a japanese kid with roughly comparable skills

because you can ask people to explain in real time

also ranma seems like a good recommendation :P

seriously, hie thee t' ##japanese

heh. or any manga with a young-ish target age, which usually have furigana

anyway, i'm off for today. l8er all

I can bet you'll be able to find most of the popular manga both scanlated and not in any anime-related tracker…

for example http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=456781

> popular

ok good night :)

'Night.

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