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| Author: | kex [ Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Senior Pope |
hi, I read the nihon kiin pages on Antti Törmänen: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp.e.qs.hp.transer.com/player/htm/ki000471.html. The page says he is in "Nihon Ki-in senior Pope position". What does that mean? |
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| Author: | Uberdude [ Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senior Pope |
I note at the top of the page "This page is translated using machine translation. Please note that the content may not be 100% accurate." Going back to the (Japanese) Nihon Ki-in homepage and then using Chrome's inbuilt translator to navigate I find his Japanese profile page at http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/player/htm/ki000471.html which says in the same position: 日本棋院東京本院 Google translate reckons that means "Nihon Ki Tokyo hospital" but just the last two characters as court, so my educated guess is it means "Nihon Ki-in Tokyo branch" (i.e. which geographic branch of the Nihon Ki-in is he affiliated with), but maybe someone who can actually read Japanese can confirm. Senior pope certainly sounds more fun! |
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| Author: | Cassandra [ Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senior Pope |
本院 = hon'in = this institution; main institution |
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| Author: | John Fairbairn [ Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senior Pope |
It's not 'position', but 'affiliation' and he is affiliated not to the Vatican but to the Nihon Ki-in main (Tokyo) branch. It looks like the translation software may be experimenting (unsuccessfully so far, evidently) with semantic clusters, hence 'main' -> 'senior', and 'temple' -> pope. Humans produce this sort of rubbish, too, incidentally. I remember in my first job as a translator for an electrical generator company that a rating plate translated from English bolted onto a transformer exported to Russia told the user the (oil) consumption was x litres. The poor Russian operator, however, read that the machine had x litres of tuberculosis. Very Chekhovian, though, I suppose. |
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