From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Mushi and Bagu
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:01:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170215150139.GC16647@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzyu0C+DskvuSVyZOhZSH2EyXn-tsV07HvbBx7=WVCjPGw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:51:58AM -0500, Nemo wrote:
> Follow-up to Larry's "Mushi! Mushi!" story
> (http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-February/008149.html).
>
> I showed this to a Japanese acquaintance, who found it hilarious for a
> different reason. He told me that a s/w bug is "bagu" -- a
> semi-transliteration -- and "mushi" is "I ignore you". So corporate
> called, asked for status, and the technical guy said "I am going to
> ignore you!" and then hung up.
Wow, that's even better than "Bug, bug!". Are you sure? Someone else
said moshi was hi and mushi was bug. Does mushi have two meanings?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-15 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-15 14:51 Nemo
2017-02-15 15:01 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-02-15 15:04 ` John Floren
2017-02-15 15:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-15 15:30 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-15 16:13 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-15 18:16 ` Nemo
2017-02-16 7:28 Rudi Blom
2017-02-16 9:36 ` jsteve
2017-02-16 10:42 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-16 13:49 ` Rudi Blom
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