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My knowledge of how to read Japanese couldn't even fill a small Matchbox, but I find myself at Japanese Astroboy sites clicking on various links and hopping to find screenshots or fan art. I've found some really good stuff even though I can't understand a word written. I sometimes use Babelfish but Babelfish translated Japanese doesn't really help much. Anyway, does anyone else do this?

Originally posted by Dragonrider1227@Jan 3 2005, 09:18 PM
My knowledge of how to read Japanese couldn't even fill a small Matchbox, but I find myself at Japanese Astroboy sites clicking on various links and hopping to find screenshots or fan art. I've found some really good stuff even though I can't understand a word written. I sometimes use Babelfish but Babelfish translated Japanese doesn't really help much. Anyway, does anyone else do this?

I use either BBfish or google translation. Using 1 of these, I have frequently visited the Sony Astroboy site, & obtained info on the episodes, etc. Those people's names meant something, as the creators & voice actors' name were translated rather than transliterated. Hence: Harmony in the Fields, etc.

I always do. That's where I find most of the good pictures. They have the best art.

Yeah, lots of times. For those who haven't, this link will show the search results for Astroboy on Japan's Google:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E9...9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=

And this will do an image search for Astroboy in Japanese:
http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E9%89...lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
(just don't click on this one :wacko: )

Originally posted by DrFrag@Jan 4 2005, 07:59 PM
Yeah, lots of times.  For those who haven't, this link will show the search results for Astroboy on Japan's Google:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E9...9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=

And this will do an image search for Astroboy in Japanese:
http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E9%89...lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
(just don't click on this one  :wacko: )

Here is a google translated version of search results for Astroboy on Japan's Google.

& here is the one for pics

Here is an item of interest from the first link. I believe I have seen these pages before.

Hmm, google seems to be uncooperative on this one. :wacko:

Originally posted by DrFrag@Jan 5 2005, 10:59 AM
Yeah, lots of times. For those who haven't, this link will show the search results for Astroboy on Japan's Google:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E9...9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=

And this will do an image search for Astroboy in Japanese:
http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E9%89...lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
(just don't click on this one :wacko: )

Aww, jeez, why did you have to tell me NOT to click on that one. Now I have to.

Originally posted by Dragonrider1227+Jan 5 2005, 06:23 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Dragonrider1227 @ Jan 5 2005, 06:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--DrFrag@Jan 5 2005, 10:59 AM
Yeah, lots of times. For those who haven't, this link will show the search results for Astroboy on Japan's Google:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E9...9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=

And this will do an image search for Astroboy in Japanese:
http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E9%89...lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
(just don't click on this one :wacko: )

Aww, jeez, why did you have to tell me NOT to click on that one. Now I have to. [/b][/quote]
I think it is called "inverted psychology" : you want someone to do something? Tell him/her to do the opposite I bet everyone reading this message clicked on "the link"

Originally posted by fafner@Jan 5 2005, 06:28 PM
I think it is called "inverted psychology" : you want someone to do something? Tell him/her to do the opposite I bet everyone reading this message clicked on "the link"

I thought this is called "paradoxical psychology", but now I'm not sure anymore.
There must be a few cases in this world on which the use of this kind of psychology fails, then it would be called "paradox paradoxical psychology".

Originally posted by Strange Wings+Jan 5 2005, 08:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Strange Wings @ Jan 5 2005, 08:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--fafner@Jan 5 2005, 06:28 PM
I think it is called "inverted psychology" : you want someone to do something? Tell him/her to do the opposite I bet everyone reading this message clicked on "the link"

I thought this is called "paradoxical psychology", but now I'm not sure anymore.
There must be a few cases in this world on which the use of this kind of psychology fails, then it would be called "paradox paradoxical psychology". [/b][/quote]
I think in my native language it translates literally as "inverted psychology", but maybe in English it is "paradoxical psychology". Unfortumately, I found no article on the Wikipedia on neither expression

When the subject guess that you're trying to induce him/her to do something by telling the opposite, he/she knows what you really want him/her to do and...
Let's say then you might try to make the subject believe what you say is the opposite so he/she thinks you think the opposite of what you really think...
Oh, it's getting complicated I give up <_<

Originally posted by fafner+Jan 5 2005, 08:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fafner @ Jan 5 2005, 08:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by -Strange Wings@Jan 5 2005, 08:13 PM
<!--QuoteBegin--fafner@Jan 5 2005, 06:28 PM
[b] I think it is called "inverted psychology" : you want someone to do something? Tell him/her to do the opposite I bet everyone reading this message clicked on "the link"

I thought this is called "paradoxical psychology", but now I'm not sure anymore.
There must be a few cases in this world on which the use of this kind of psychology fails, then it would be called "paradox paradoxical psychology". [/b]

I think in my native language it translates literally as "inverted psychology", but maybe in English it is "paradoxical psychology". Unfortumately, I found no article on the Wikipedia on neither expression

When the subject guess that you're trying to induce him/her to do something by telling the opposite, he/she knows what you really want him/her to do and...
Let's say then you might try to make the subject believe what you say is the opposite so he/she thinks you think the opposite of what you really think...
Oh, it's getting complicated I give up <_< [/b][/quote]
That's exactly what I meant.
There must exist such cases. Imagine a psychiatrist meeting a psychiatrist, but the one psychiatrist wouldn't have any idea that his opposite is a psychiatrist too. So if the one psychiatrist tries to frame the other psychiatrist by using the 'paradox paradox paradox paradox paradoxical psychology'....

...hang on a second, I need my Thorazine shuffle :wacko: .

Sorry for going off topic BTW .

Hamlet's psychiatrist B)