From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T13:20:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick question for Japanese speaker

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:40 pm, Simon Cozens wrote:
| Joey Gibson <joey@joeygibson.com> writes:
| > If someone can tell me what the kanji for Ruby is
|
| It's this one: http://ddtm.simon-cozens.org/ruby.png
| "kougyoku" is the pronounciation - "kurenai" and "tama" are the
| individual characters.

This brings up another interesting question (for language geeks like me)... 
When matz, etc speak about Ruby in their native language, do they refer to it 
natively (as above, etc), or the English "Ruby?"  The fact Hal asked for 
Kanji makes me assume the former (from my very limited understanding of 
Japanese he would have asked for Katakana otherwise).  Though... I *have* 
seen it in Katakana form previously--can someone shed some light on this?

I'm sure this has been mentioned before in -talk, but google is failing me.

Also-- significant discussion has taken place on this list as to 'powered by 
Ruby' images (in English)-- have any similar Japanese discussions taken place 
(with any result)?  

-- Bruce
(who spends most of his time doing research and can therefore not be blamed 
for any pedantic, pointless questions he may ask ;-)

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