{"id":1514,"date":"2026-04-19T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:07:05","slug":"some-quite-unrelated-things-i-have-learned-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Some Quite Unrelated Things I Have Learned Recently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u8331\u8438\u6ca2<\/strong>&nbsp;is read Gumizawa. It&#8217;s a place in Gotemba that I encountered in an interpreting assignment this past week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drexel University in Philadelphia can find the diploma of a person who graduated more than a half-century ago, didn&#8217;t have a record of his student number (why would he?), and just told them his name, date of birth, approximate graduation date, and major. They found it, and the diploma\u2014I don&#8217;t need something in a frame, but putting it in a frame is probably how they justify charging USD 150)\u2014is arriving next week in a package that UPS said is 2 lbs, according to the notification I received today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Things I learned last month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am not a bastard (at least in one sense of the word), attested to by the marriage certificate of my long-departed parents obtained from my hometown.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The purported Japanese name of Defense Language Institute in Monterey (at least as purported on a Japanese-language Wikipedia page about that school) is&nbsp;<strong>\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u56fd\u9632\u7dcf\u7701\u8a9e\u5b66\u5b66\u6821<\/strong>. Why the Japanese turn language into linguistics is beyond me. I guess it sounds more impressive. I don&#8217;t recall learning any &#8220;linguistics&#8221; there in the 1960s, but rather the language spoken in the country that was forced to change its name but not much else a few decades after I graduated. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The classroom time at DLI was more than 1500 hours. That&#8217;s equivalent to numerous years in a university language program. Although I had extremely good grades, I managed to lose almost all my speaking ability in that language quite quickly, but that is totally unrelated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">translation and interpreting<\/a> services I currently provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I learned last month: The classroom time at DLI was more than 1500 hours. That&#8217;s equivalent to numerous years in a university language program. Although I had extremely good grades, I managed to lose almost all my speaking ability in that language quite quickly, but that is totally unrelated to the translation and interpreting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Quite Unrelated Things I Have Learned Recently&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[239,238],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-drippings","tag-defense-language-institute","tag-drexel-univerfsity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}