{"id":5042,"date":"2013-06-30T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2018-07-31T06:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T10:54:28","slug":"the-hunters-who-owned-themselves-translated-into-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>The Hunters Who Owned Themselves\u201d Translated into Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/13-06-30-BLOG-The-Hunters-Who-Owned-Themselves-Translated-into-Japanese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/13-06-30-BLOG-The-Hunters-Who-Owned-Themselves-Translated-into-Japanese.jpg\" alt=\"13-06-30 BLOG The Hunters Who Owned Themselves Translated into Japanese\" width=\"301\" height=\"399\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is now a Japan\u00adese edi\u00adtion of <em>The Secret His\u00adto\u00adry of Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/em>.&nbsp;I am most curi\u00adous to know, but will prob\u00ada\u00adbly nev\u00ader know, how my prose in \u201cThe Hunters Who Owned Them\u00adselves\u201d reads in Japan\u00adese trans\u00adla\u00adtion, or how the mix\u00adture of Eng\u00adlish, French, Michif and Cree ter\u00admi\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy was han\u00addled.&nbsp;Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, I do not yet pos\u00adsess the pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion data\u2026 only that a Japan\u00adese edi\u00adtion has exist\u00aded for sev\u00ader\u00adal months.&nbsp;Per\u00adhaps some Japan\u00adese read\u00ader who is flu\u00adent in Eng\u00adlish will report to me on this matter.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The book is also avail\u00adable for Kin\u00addle, at a bet\u00adter price than the paper\u00adback.&nbsp;My <em>Nexus 7<\/em> tablet hav\u00ading proven itself indis\u00adpens\u00adable (I now have dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty remem\u00adber\u00ading my life with\u00adout it), I find myself read\u00ading more and more books on it, as e\u2011books or pdfs.&nbsp;My dig\u00adi\u00adtal library is now con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably larg\u00ader than my phys\u00adi\u00adcal one. How\u00adev\u00ader, most of the e\u2011books I\u2019ve found have been dread\u00adful\u00adly cre\u00adat\u00aded by mind\u00adless scan\u00adning, with no attempt to cor\u00adrect for\u00admat, type\u00adface shifts, and mis\u00adin\u00adter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions.&nbsp;In one book I have, the scan\u00adner decid\u00aded that \u201c<em>the<\/em>\u201d rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded \u201c<em>die<\/em>\u201d, and so replaced every occur\u00adrence, so that the text reads rather mor\u00adbid\u00adly.&nbsp;Yet peo\u00adple seem will\u00ading to pay almost the same as book prices for this slop\u00adpy&nbsp;stuff!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I always notice how many peo\u00adple are read\u00ading things in sub\u00adway cars, street\u00adcars and bus\u00ades.&nbsp;My impres\u00adsion is that e\u2011readers have notice\u00adably increased the num\u00adber.&nbsp;Many peo\u00adple, it seems, who would not car\u00adry books around with them feel com\u00adfort\u00adable with a tablet or read\u00ading from their phones.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a Japan\u00adese edi\u00adtion of The Secret His\u00adto\u00adry of Democ\u00adra\u00adcy.&nbsp;I am most curi\u00adous to know, but will prob\u00ada\u00adbly nev\u00ader know, how my prose in \u201cThe Hunters Who Owned Them\u00adselves\u201d reads in Japan\u00adese trans\u00adla\u00adtion, or how the mix\u00adture&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5042\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[936,937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-an-blog-2013","category-bn-reading-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7289,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}