From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john@jfloren.net (John Floren) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:04:52 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Mushi and Bagu In-Reply-To: <20170215150139.GC16647@mcvoy.com> References: <20170215150139.GC16647@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: When I studied Japanese in high school, our teacher told us mushi is bug. Bagu is a literal transliteration that may be more common in actual use, but mushi certainly means bug. On Feb 15, 2017 08:01, "Larry McVoy" wrote: > 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 part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: