From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2006-08-31T22:04:24+09:00 Subject: Re: How to spy on the Japanese Rubists On 8/30/06, nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote: > Hi, > > At Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:35:55 +0900, > Rick DeNatale wrote in [ruby-talk:211552]: > > There's also romanji which is the english/european alphabet, which is > > Japanese say it romaji, without 'n'. > > > > and apparently also means 'motivation bean jam'. Any time > > > they shorten something like that, it's almost assured to also mean > > > something else. The translator has no way of knowing this was a short > > > form of other words, and does its best to translate. > > > > Well maybe it's coming from there. I've discussed this with my > > Japanese-American wife, and she couldn't figure out how. The only > > thing I can think of as being bean jam would be anko, which is a > > popular stiff jelly-like sweet made from the azuki bean. > > It came from "yaruki an'noka?", which means "do you have the > motivation?". "an'noka" is rough expression for "arunoka". Domo-arrigato Nobu-sensei. I wonder where the "bean jam" translation is coming from. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ IPMS/USA Region 12 Coordinator http://ipmsr12.denhaven2.com/ Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/