From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T03:10:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] How to spy on the Japanese Rubists

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 05:43 am, Zev Blut wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:35:02 +0900, Harry <rubyprogrammer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > One person interested in the list and one person interested in Matz's
> > blog. Hmmm....
> > Translating takes a lot of time. Something I don't have much of right  
> > now.

(Sorry, I misplaced Harry's post, is the one to which I should have replied.)

What takes the time in translation?

I'm just wondering--if people are interested, perhaps someone fluent in 
Japanese and English (i.e., a translator) could read Matz's blog (out loud)  
and record it.  Then other volunteers might be willing to transcribe the 
recordings to written (English) text.  

I say that (as opposed to streaming the audio, or similar), because with a 
slow dial-up connection (and even without it), I prefer written text--it 
takes less bandwidth over the Internet and (usually at least) less bandwidth 
on my Internet <=> brain interface.

And, I'm not interested enough to volunteer as a transcriber--I'm more curious 
to know whether that would be a significant help to a translator. 

Randy Kramer