From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-04-11T01:35:01+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: "Unix" in Japanese

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:28:59PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
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> In message "Re: OT: "Unix" in Japanese"
>     on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:58 +0900, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>=
 writes:
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> |Since I figure there are probably a few Japanese Unix hackers on this
> |list (Matz at minimum), this might be the place to ask:
> |
> |How do you "spell" the word "Unix" in Japanese?  Do you use some kind of
> |katakana formation (like =E3=83=A6=E3=83=BC=E3=83=8B=E3=82=AF=E3=82=B9, =
perhaps), or is there Kanji for it,
> |or do you use romaji . . . or something that I've missed because I didn't
> |get much sleep last night?
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> We spell UNIX as UNIX for most of the case.  We pronounce UNIX as
>  "=E3=83=A6=E3=83=8B=E3=83=83=E3=82=AF=E3=82=B9", which is YU-NICK-S, jus=
t in case you can't read
>  Katakana here.

Thanks to both you and T K for your answers.  I'm kinda surprised at the
geminate consonant use.


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> |While I'm at it . . . how is Ruby usually represented in Japanese?
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> Ruby the language is Ruby.  Sometimes people use Katakana (=E3=83=AB=E3=
=83=93=E3=83=BC)
> against my intention.  We pronounce it as Ru-Bee.

=2E . . and thanks for that clarification as well.

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