day jeorb, cw: renowned Martian scholar laughs until her eyes bleed (+?)
BWAAA HAAAA HAAA
You know that scene from In The Mountains of Madness where you see the protagonist's cell and it's all covered in crosses, and so is his face?
Yeah, imagine that except with kanji and map icons all over it, and me. Today I started my new project, helping the Japanese and Chinese team investigate their queries.
For those of you who haven't seen my recent <s>nervous breakdowns</s> posts on the matter, Japanese addresses, in particular, are very... special. A bit on medieval side, to be honest. And then there's the fact that some kanji—particularly those used in proper names—can have a dozen or more different readings.
I think I did okay on my first one—despite Google Translate's generous and incorrect "help"—and I'm kinda proud of myself. But yikes, this is my life now, at least until I do ~160 of these or a more urgent project rolls in.
I'm... I'm just gonna back to scrawling 馬鹿 all over myself and my environs with a Sharpie, if you don't mind. Let me know if the cackling and weeping get to you.
UPDATE: day jeorb, renowned Martian scholar laughs until her eyes bleed, semi-obscure Touhou Project reference
⑨ 火星虎(脳たりん)
re: UPDATE: day jeorb, renowned Martian scholar laughs until her eyes bleed, semi-obscure Touhou Project reference
(The above joke has been closed-captioned for the weeaboo-impaired)
⑨ is an in-joke about the Touhou character Cirla, who is infamously captioned in a manual screenshot as (9):バカ ["idiot"].
And work is making me feel a bit thick today. Less thick than the humans of course but still thick. O;)