A call to downgrade English in Chinese schools is fueling discussion over its value for students, careers and China's global competitiveness in the age of AI.
But they don’t always mean what you think 写真はイメージです。 is a classic. “[the] picture is an image”. Of course it is! Well, except it means image in the sense of a representative sample image, not an image of the exact thing. It’s basically a disclaimer they put on product images in case it doesn’t look exactly alike.
Having worked at a company where all the code was written by Japanese for Japanese-speakers, it’s just nouns in romaji for variables, something verb-y for functions. Some function names had particles as a part of that (still in romaji). No counters that I recall in code (though used in comments).
Japanese doesn’t count because half the words for things are just English with a Japanese accent!
Drink your koohii and maybe have an aisu kuriimu later to understand what I’m talking about 😁
But they don’t always mean what you think 写真はイメージです。 is a classic. “[the] picture is an image”. Of course it is! Well, except it means image in the sense of a representative sample image, not an image of the exact thing. It’s basically a disclaimer they put on product images in case it doesn’t look exactly alike.
Yes yes. You don’t need to remind us all that Japanese is stupidly complicated. Everyone who’s watched a bit of anime knows that 🤣
Sooo… Let’s say you want to actually use Japanese in your code. Which of the three writing systems would you choose?
Also, do you start counters at zero or do you…
Noun + Particle + Number + Counter?
I mean, it must be a real pain to first have to figure out what it is you’re counting before you can actually start the index 🤔
Also, make sure your fonts follow the shinto stroke ordering! Otherwise your schoolteacher will haunt you from their grave and curse your program!
😁
Having worked at a company where all the code was written by Japanese for Japanese-speakers, it’s just nouns in romaji for variables, something verb-y for functions. Some function names had particles as a part of that (still in romaji). No counters that I recall in code (though used in comments).
So serious! I was just being silly.
I bow my head in apology, for making you consider my statements with such intense defensive posturing!