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So I programmed a page to randomly generate names of Japanese restaurants. It’s pretty cool, check it out here: Japanese Restaurant Name Generator. Not only does it come up with randomized names, but you can even vote on them
So far it’s been a fun quick little project to give me [...]

Two of the coolest things from Japan are: Ninjas and Koans. Mix them together and you get Ninja Koans. (Some of these, you’ll have to know what they’re a parody of in order to get the joke!;))
The Overly Clever Zen-master
The ninja Nobushige visited the Zen Master Haukin and asked: “Is there [...]

Japanese grammar is famous for being so out-of-order compared to English. Or is it the other way around? Maybe English is the out-of-order grammar! Just for fun, let’s imagine WWII turned out drastically different, computers were invented in Japan, and they got to make up all the syntax. [...]

When I suggest people take work and jobs less seriously, a common reaction is: “I need money or else I’ll starve.” With technology continuing to obsolete human labor at a faster and faster pace, more and more jobs are gonna disappear, whether we take them seriously or not. A lot of people [...]

This is a very long-delayed continuation of the Goldmine of Engrish I published previously. I wasn’t planning on posting an Engrish sequel, but the original was so popular, people are practically demanding an encore, so here we go These are some of the most horrifically badly translated subtitles ever put forth [...]

In the cult classic “Fight Club”, Brad Pitt plays as Tyler Durden, a charismatic anarcho-primitivist who frees lots of men from the lethargic oppression of consumer society. Encouraging men to pick fights with one another, Tyler dismantles deep-held patterns of social interaction, short-circuiting the autopilot mechanisms by which those men used to lead their [...]

If you ever find yourself starring in a major Hollywood blockbuster and there’s a girl you want to seduce, here are some ways you can go about doing it.
* Tell her you love her and can’t live without her. If this doesn’t work right away, it’s because she’s not sufficiently convinced, so spend the rest [...]

For a lot of people, grocery shopping is one of those chores you just gotta do. I’ve always had a problem about going in places like Kroger and Giant Eagle, they somehow seem to sap at my consciousness. Something about the environment just lulls me into a zombie-like stupor. Sometimes I’ll end up staring into [...]

An autodidact is a self-teacher. In other words when you teach yourself things on your own, enjoying the freedom of being absolutely self-paced. I’ve been teaching myself for most of my life, starting when I taught myself the BASIC programming language on an old Tandy my family found outside the UCSD student housing dumpsters. Later [...]

Do you ever have compulsive urges to correct other peoples’ language? Do you feel like you’re part of some kind of “language elite”? Here are some signs that you might be going down the more judgmental path of linguistics. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, read my article Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism.

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