Hey Elizabeth & all,
I have a niece teaching ESL in Tokyo who I can probably get to help if you
need. Thx for offering, and let me know...
-Rob
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Walters, Elizabeth <
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> Hi, Tom,
> Forgive my very inelegant quickie translation, made after skimming only
> the first few lines of the article, but the title is something along the
> lines of "[An Interview with] Takeaki Anazawa, the 'Man Who Made Denon':
> Why Denon Decided to Tackle the Invention of the World's First Commercial
> Digital Recording [Device]". (The brackets indicate my assessment of what
> is implied though not stated---it's true that Japanese often does not make
> an easy transition to English!)
>
> This looks like a great series of articles, and definitely worth
> translating. I'll see what I can do with them, perhaps over the holiday
> break.
> Thanks for bringing them to our attention!
> Elizabeth
>
> Elizabeth Walters
> Preservation Librarian for Audiovisual Materials
> Weissman Preservation Center
> Harvard Library
>
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> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Japanese-English translation would be much appreciated
>
> Denon posted a multi-part profile of Dr. Anazawa, the leader of their
> pioneering digital recording
> team:
> http://pr.denon.com/jp/Denon/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=259#.Vmbzxl6I_fJ
>
> Google "translate" does such a mangling of Japanese-English that I can't
> even be sure what the article is about, much less what Dr. Anazwa said.
> From the little exposure I've had to Japanese, it's not a language that is
> easily robo-translated into English (based on my experience with Google,
> that robot has trouble with ANY language to English).
>
> If there is anyone here fluent in Japanese and English, someone with some
> interest in the early history of digital recording, it would be most
> appreciated if they could post a translation.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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