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Japanese for Nerds

"In any case, this series began with the assertion that Japanese has meaningful similarities to computer languages which make it amenable to learning by geeks. I know that this is true. For instance, the author of an early version of Emacs learned the basic structure of Japanese from me in about two hours with the help of a syntax diagram I wrote on the back of an envelope, and was chatting up girls later that evening with the help of a little dictionary. He ended up with a girl who actually found his bushy nose hair attractive"

At Kuro5hin.org, Japanese for Nerds in three parts, two of which are out by now. Via Der Kutter.

Japanese for Nerds (I) >
Japanese for Nerds (II) >

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