The house of Babel

There is a funny news in Japanese Yahoo. It is talking about that the threatens in the internet become non visualization.

You know that ~ize (~化) can make a lot of new transitive verbs, and then from there you could make a lot of new nous with ~ization.

For example there are revolutionize, systemize, unionize

crystallize, hypothesize (~化), if you want to push a phrase or a sentence into that place, people would laugh at you.

calvinize, bowdlerize

dramatize, oxidize, iodize

apostatize, sympathize.

Normally, when you make a new word, there are some rules to follow. Otherwise the words you made would be very funny and could not spread.

For example, ~ize, the front part should be one word. After you made the new word, you can add prefix or suffix.

The same as Japanese

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インターネット上の脅威は「見えない化」が進む～IPA調査

情報処理推進機構は27日、5月23日に発刊を公表した「情報セキュリティ白書 2008」から第II部「10大脅威 ますます進む『見えない化』」を抜粋したものを公開した。

10大脅威の主要な関係

情報セキュリティ白書2008 第II部 「10大脅威 ますます進む『見えない化』」は、情報処理推進機構に報告されたコンピュータウイルス・不正アクセス・脆弱性に関する情報や一般に公開された情報を基にま とめられたもの。「情報セキュリティ早期警戒パートナーシップ1」に参画する関係者のほか、情報セキュリティ分野における研究者、実務担当者など104 名から構成される「情報セキュリティ検討会」で、2007年に「印象が強かったもの」、「社会的影響が大きいもの」などの観点から投票を行い、10大脅威 を選択・分析した上で、今後の対策をまとめた。10大脅威は以下の通り。

第1位 高まる「誘導型」攻撃の脅威
第2位 ウェブサイトを狙った攻撃の広まり
第3位 恒常化する情報漏えい
第4位 巧妙化する標的型攻撃
第5位 信用できなくなった正規サイト
第6位 検知されにくいボット、潜在化するコンピュータウイルス
第7位 検索エンジンからマルウェア配信サイトに誘導
第8位 国内製品の脆弱性が頻発
第9位 減らないスパムメール
第10位 組み込み製品の脆弱性の増加

I almost got messed up by ELS and ESL.

The thing is this. I was looking for some way to get into American University. For foreign people whose native language is not English, you know, you have to have TOEFL score.

And I knew recently there is conditional admission for foreign students. It means that, if you did not have good TOEFL score before you came, you can do this conditional admission. After you came to USA, you can study English.

In this point, I was messed up. Do you think which one was combined with the conditional admission? It was ESL, not ELS!!!!!!!!!!!!

ESL is English as a Second Language.

ELS is English Language School.

So I tell you, Be careful.

It is difficult for Japanese to pronounce R. Normally just pronounce R as L.

Everybody knows that there is no retroflex (eg, R sound) in Japanese. Somebody wants to say that is some physiological deficiency of Japanese. I do not agree on that. If you could not pronounce Arabic ( language ), do you think you have some physiological deficiency?

For me, learning a foreign language is just some mouth practice. If you get the point and practise enough, everybody can do that.

I believe most of us can whistle, remember, at such time, your mouth and your tongue are ready to pronounce R very well.

You can have a try now. Soon you will find the difference between R and L.

Whistle

The main problem of Japanese speakers’ English level is that most of Japanese read English using Katagana. You can say Japanese English is Katagana-English.

The problem of the main problem is that when Japanese study English, the teacher normally only teach them grammar.

For mastering a foreign language, the first and the basic thing is to master the pronunciation.

For Japanese, if you want to improve your English level, you can try the following thing.

1, Start from zero, ie. start from the pronunciation of the 26 alphabets.

2. Do not use any Katagana to mark any English words to help you to remember English vocabulary.

3. Speak it out

4, repeat 1, 2, and 3.

<pronunciation of 26 alphabets>