From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T22:47:58+09:00
Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: How to pronounce Ruby?

Hi,

In message "Re: OFFTOPIC: How to pronounce Ruby?"
    on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:06:07 +0900, "Arie Kusuma Atmaja" <ariekusumaatmaja@gmail.com> writes:

|Ruby was written in Romaji then Katakana, it's being read: rubii
|or perhaps (sorry i'm not an english native speaker) in English
|pronounciation might be: roo bee

I pronounce Ruby as lu-bee when I speak in Japanese, and Ruby (as red
jewel) in English.

|AFAIK Japanese is so proud of Japan, that's why I wonder why Matz
|didn't name Ruby in Kanji Letters first, and then provided its
|translation in Katakana (ルビー) and Romaji (Ruby)

I am not fond of being cryptic for rest of the world. ;-)
The name of the language should always be in Roma-ji (alphabets), even
in Japanese.

							matz.