http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/science\/news\/20100906ddm016040018000c.html<\/a><\/p>\n\u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6\u00e7\u2030\u00a9\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa:\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac\u00e3\u20ac\u0152\u00e4\u00b8\u008d\u00e5\u00ae\u2030\u00e3\u20ac\u008d3\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba\u00e3\u0081\u00ab2\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba<\/p>\n
——————————————-<\/p>\n
\u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6 – \u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u0152\u00e3\u0081\u008f – chemistry
\n\u00e7\u2030\u00a9\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u0081\u00a3\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a4 – material, substance
\n\u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6\u00e7\u2030\u00a9\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa – \u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u0152\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u0081\u00a3\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a4 – chemical substance, chemicals<\/p>\n
\u00e4\u00b8\u008d\u00e5\u00ae\u2030 – \u00e3\u0081\u00b5\u00e3\u0081\u201a\u00e3\u201a\u201c – worried, concerned<\/p>\n
3\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba\u00e3\u0081\u00ab2\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba – \u00e3\u0081\u2022\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u201c – two out of three people<\/p>\n
This headline confused me briefly, but then I remembered that Japanese fractions are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upside down\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to fractions in English.
\nWhere in English we would say:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153three fourths\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nin Japanese it would be
\n4\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u00ae3<\/p>\n
English states the numerator first, but the denominator is stated first in Japanese. The same principle applies for 3\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba\u00e3\u0081\u00ab2\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba, with the quantity of elements of the set stated before the elements exhibiting the property of interest.<\/p>\n
——————————————-<\/p>\n
Translation:
\n2 Out of 3 People are Concerned About Chemicals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Mainichi Shinbun: http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/science\/news\/20100906ddm016040018000c.html \u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6\u00e7\u2030\u00a9\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa:\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac\u00e3\u20ac\u0152\u00e4\u00b8\u008d\u00e5\u00ae\u2030\u00e3\u20ac\u008d3\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba\u00e3\u0081\u00ab2\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba ——————————————- \u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6 – \u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u0152\u00e3\u0081\u008f – chemistry \u00e7\u2030\u00a9\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u0081\u00a3\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a4 – material, substance \u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6\u00e7\u2030\u00a9\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa – \u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u0152\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u0081\u00a3\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a4 – chemical substance, chemicals \u00e4\u00b8\u008d\u00e5\u00ae\u2030 – \u00e3\u0081\u00b5\u00e3\u0081\u201a\u00e3\u201a\u201c – worried, concerned 3\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba\u00e3\u0081\u00ab2\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba – \u00e3\u0081\u2022\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u201c – two out of three people This headline confused me briefly, but then I remembered that Japanese fractions are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upside down\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}