Alex Warburton and Meghanne Barker November 23, 2018 Spiritual renewal in Kazakhstan includes orthographic reform. On February 19, 2018, Kazakhstani social media came alive when… Read More »Putting an End to the Rain of Apostrophes
My commute to my new job at Nagoya University this morning revealed that macarone is alive and well among Japanese taggers.
A radio quiz program suggested that Toyota uses a character written with eight strokes, while Toyoda uses one with ten, and that eight is a more auspicious number. This is strange for at least two reasons.
It turns out that BBC News contributor Kathryn Westcott published an article last week addressing the question, “Why is the car giant Toyota not Toyoda?” which does a pretty good job explaining the apparent inconsistency.