1/20/2010

Japanese English

  Now I'm working about making name of a project and concept.  The Client needs "cool" and "intellectual" naming, I heard.  Always I work thin kind of work, I keep in my mind to use correct English, for the sake of English, American and people using English ordinarily don't feel strange.
 In Japan, there are flood of strange English words, not only pronunciation but also naming as text. Because most of Japanese very loves "English name" as good feeling especially sound.(not only English, but also French, Italian.... without distinguishing...)  Therefore we, working in marketing and communication are often requested "compound word in English" and have produced strange Japanese English Words. The funny Masterpiece is, "Terminal Hotel" situated at big railway station, "mansion"(means apartment house even has only 3 rooms), "Wiener Coffee" (of course without sausage... means Vienna coffee), "bite"(means part timer...came from German's "Arbeit"....but "Arbeit" means "Work".),"consent"(means socket/outlet...I don't know why "consent" has become such meaning)......
 Of course for myself, every time I worry about writing and speaking using my poor English. (sorry, this blog is so poor too.... precisely for this reason, I decided to write English Blog for my own study) Especially always I worry about "preposition", to, for, on, at, in, into........ However even such a poor English, I would like not to make strange "Japanese English" at all times.  
 In this time also, I proposed some compound words using correct English.  But finally, the general producer of this project adopted his own idea, using bit strange English". It seems important for him not correct as English, but "sound" and feeling.
 I thought like that, the "flood" has flown all over Japan today.
 I hope Japanese next generation to correct such ashamed habit in the future.

1/12/2010

Toward where the "Communication System" will go?

I've finished remaking my company's web site. However it's so hectic to check it running exactly depend on PC OS and browser, windows, mac.... especially, it's so difficult to fit major "Internet Explorer" using "Ajax".
By the way, sometime I bit worry how will be the communication system among us, human beings.  Absolutely, it has become so convenient to contact with someone to use E-mail, ....etc.,especially to contact about with anyone abroad.  But on the other hand, I think it is right way or not??.....to communicate among us. Somewhere in my mind, I believe that we living creature which can be lived by warm blood, must communicate by more analog way.... talk directly each other with laughing, anger, and tears.....  Because I always feel how important "heart-warming" exchange with someone.
After 50 years, maybe the answer will be clear.  How do you think?

my company new site,
http://www.candm-intl.com

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