2008年1月19日 星期六

Best Sellers Go Cellular

Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

Ko Sasaki for The New York Times

其實這種照片(妙的是背景廣告也是 mobile相關廣告)
可以從20年前香港街頭景象推廣出來
"問題"是 現在的"質與量"都不一樣啦

Japan’s younger generation came of age with the cellphone, and created its own popular culture by tapping thumbs on keypads.


Published: January 20, 2008

TOKYO — Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago. Then last month, the year-end best-seller tally showed that cellphone novels, republished in book form, have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.


要效法台灣的"丁丁"或 大陸的 呸,英语! 等詳解
可能每天產出一篇啦 這樣嗨 太麻煩啦

come of age

Go Cellular 有意思
注意它不是這go (BECOME) go (OPERATE) go (BE EXPRESSED)...
不過我還找不到比較好的解釋

go was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.


真是"丟臉" 不過 意會之後"記下它的用法就是"

wield PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Hide phonetics
verb [T]
1 to hold a weapon or tool and look as if you are going to use it:
She was confronted by a man wielding a knife.

2 wield influence/power, etc. to have a lot of influence or power over other people:
He still wields enormous influence within the party.



dexterous 這字眼值得去參考大陸翻譯普林斯頓大學出版社的 ""一書

adj.
  1. Skillful in the use of the hands.
  2. Having mental skill or adroitness.
  3. Done with dexterity.

[From Latin dexter, skillful. See dexter.]

dexterously dex'ter·ous·ly adv.
dexterousness dex'ter·ous·ness n.

SYNONYMS dexterous, deft, adroit, handy, nimble. These adjectives refer to skill and ease in performance. Dexterous implies physical or mental agility: dexterous fingers. Deft suggests quickness, sureness, neatness, and lightness of touch: deft strokes; a deft turn of phrase. Adroit implies ease and natural skill, especially in challenging situations: an adroit skier; an adroit negotiator. Handy suggests a more modest aptitude, principally in manual work: handy with tools. Nimble stresses quickness and lightness in physical or mental performance: nimble feet; nimble wits.



subgenre ---- "genre"文類 參考陳世驤先生論文 (楊牧輯譯 台北新潮 1978??)

'Tale of Genji' 千年夢


in・fil・trate


,
━━ v. 浸透[浸潤]させる[する] ((into, through)); (スパイを)潜入させる.
in・fil・tra・tion ━━ n. 浸透(物); 潜入; 【医】(肺)浸潤; 【軍】浸透作戦.
in・fil・tra・tor ━━ n. 潜入者.



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