Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
A site with Nara's movie is up. Trailers, short videos and much more. I wish I could be in Tokyo or the many other cities on this tour to see this. Thanks noriko apod for the heads up. A lot of you may not know Nara at all, since it's been a few years since he's shown in LA, and so on, but he's been doing well everywhere else. His work is great, and I wish I could be at each one of his shows.
One thing that’s puzzled me for a while, is why do Japanese Americans add an extra vowel at the end of some words. For example, “I bought some sushi-i.” It’s sushi. But somehow there’s an extra “i”. It sounds like “su-Shii” as if it’s two words with a heavy accent on the second half of the word. Another one I’ve heard is gyoza. It’s gyoza. That’s it. But I’ve heard it as “gyo-za-a” with three syllables. I know there’s more!
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One thing that's puzzled me for a while, is why do Japanese Americans add an extra vowel at the end of some words. For example, "I bought some sushi-i." It's sushi. But somehow there's an extra "i". It sounds like "su-Shii" as if it's two words with a heavy accent on the second half of the word.
Another one I've heard is gyoza. It's gyoza. That's it. But I've heard it as "gyo-za-a" with three...
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Another one I've heard is gyoza. It's gyoza. That's it. But I've heard it as "gyo-za-a" with three...
I just built the Giant Robot issue podcasts page up and it’s pretty bare, but you’ll be able to see the podcasts and open them in itunes. It was sort of a task noodling around the net to figure it out, but Blogger actually has a few tools and such to make this work. Now, I’ll edit gr45 (late) and the gr46 podcasts and get those up too. It’s still updating and so forth, so it’ll be more up to date in a bit of time.
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I just built the Giant Robot issue podcastspage up and it's pretty bare, but you'll be able to see the podcasts and open them in itunes. It was sort of a task noodling around the net to figure it out, but Blogger actually has a few tools and such to make this work. Now, I'll edit gr45 (late) and the gr46 podcasts and get those up too. It's still updating and so forth, so it'll be more up to date...
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