"Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast." (twostrokesmoke)
11/11/2015 at 14:30 • Filed to: None
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"Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast." (twostrokesmoke)
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If you speak japanese, this isn’t really the question for you, but your insite is welcome, too.
How did you get the ews in English to see just what was going on?
My wife is on a commitee to put together the emergency info for her company’s Tokyo office. They want to know how English speaking foreigners got English news back in 2011. Were another emergency to occur, what information would you wish to have access to during an Earthquake or other disaster?
Thanks in advance, your suggestions could potentially help save lives.
Have an appropriate oldie song for your time.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
11/11/2015 at 14:42 |
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I’ve spent time in SK, but I can’t say I really kept up with local news in English at all. I’d say a lot depends on having bilingual people who are keeping up handy, but hopefully one has a local phone that can receive text alerts in English. Even somebody in country temporarily usually has *something* of that kind, and as long as it’s at least minimally correctly translated... Texts also don’t get freaked so much by heavy loads on the cell system, because SMS is so minimal and uses back channels.
English subtitles or other outreach via local news in more languages is harder to implement and carries the flaw that the non-speaker simply won’t be watching.
jariten1781
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
11/11/2015 at 14:50 |
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Anytime something big was going on (roads shut down, earthquake, typhoon preps, whatever) I’d go ask in a hotel lobby...there’s like a 90% chance someone at the desk knew English. They were always happy to help out. Did both in Europe and Asia. This was like 2008 and earlier though, don’t know if there’s anything more usable out there now.
Like day-to-day local news? Didn’t really keep up with it since I was never around more than 3 months.
Autohaus Derp
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
11/11/2015 at 15:52 |
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I’m British and live in America, does that count?
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Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> Autohaus Derp
11/11/2015 at 15:58 |
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Afraid not. We just sort of suck it up and roll with it when the crap goes down, and then complain about it while we clean it up.