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And the brewery got the name from Ebisu, a god who is believed to protect fishermen.

I was there a few days ago. Doesn't seem dead to me, but I don't know what it was like pre-covid.

> A deposition is a verbal Q & A that's transcribed by a court reporter based on what they hear the person saying.

Nishitani was most likely deposed in his native language where the particular English ambiguity you point out probably wouldn't happen. Listing things and marking possession use spoken helper words rather than punctuation.

"You're a very clever man, Mr. James, and that's a very good question," replied the little old lady, "but I have an answer to it. And it's this: The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him."

"But what does this second turtle stand on?" persisted James patiently.

To this, the little old lady crowed triumphantly,

"It's no use, Mr. James—it's turtles all the way down."

I think you missed the joke. The first line of the tao te ching says something to the effect of the tao that can be named is not the real tao.

I think it's a bit of word play. 苺 (strawberry) and 一語 (one word) are both read "Ichigo".

One thing I hate about F# and SQL is that they use <> as a "not equals" operator. In Haskell, <> is the binary operator of any Semigroup instance.

Haskell:

    import Data.IORef
    
    main :: IO ()
    main = do
      x <- newIORef (0 :: Int)
      writeIORef x 5
      y <- readIORef x
      print y

Not true. I bought a new Icoca recently.

> still way too imperative and not as functional to be called a true ML

As a Haskell fanboy, this is how I feel about Ocaml and F#.

The same principle applies to programming. Functions that know less about their arguments are more generally applicable.

How do illegal immigrants become voters?