Tag Archives: Japan

Emoticon Styles (JP vs. US)

2007-05-25 – 5:23 pm

I found this interesting article about Americans and Japanese read faces differently. To cut the article short, they explain that Japanese culture seems to read the eyes for emotional cues while American culture seems to read the mouth.
Quick comparison of emoticons:
 US JP
 :-) ^_^
 x-) [...]

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A bug report from Japan…

2007-03-21 – 9:43 pm

Wow! I found a blog post talking about It’s All Text! on a blog called Another 朝顔日記 written in japanese!
According to babelfish, the author found a silly bug [english] in It’s All Text! (I left out a var declaration) and is explaining the way to fix this. Neat!

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