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> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion" Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..

by gedy 11y ago

function_seven 11y ago
Wow, same here. Thought it was pronounced: KEER-oh-shin or keer-OH-shin
userbinator 11y ago
Amusingly enough, if you read it as "kuro-shin" that could correspond to the Japanese characters 黒心, which literally translates to "black heart". That's what I thought the name was supposed to be too.
- glandium 11y ago
  FWIW, くろ (kuro) is the "kunyomi" of 黒 and しん(shin) is the "onyomi" of 心. Japanese 2-character compound words don't mix onyomi and kunyomi. I don't think there is a character with a "kuro" onyomi or one with a "shin" kunyomi (well, there's 信じる (shinjiru), but that's a reading that doesn't go without the hiragana).
  - Grue3 11y ago
    Actually there's a lot of words that mix onyomi and kunyomi. For example, 親身 "shinmi" (relative): both of the characters have onyomi "shin", but 身 uses kunyomi reading "mi" in this word. Other examples are 見本, 強気, 親分, it's more common than you'd think.
    - glandium 11y ago
      Heh, this is where this gets embarrassing... of course, they are common. They are so common that you end up losing track of them, hidden in plain sight. Looking them up, I now discover they even have names: 湯桶読み(yutouyomi) and 重箱読み (juubakoyomi).
jonathankoren 11y ago
It was a joke on multiple levels. The founder was Rusty. Rusty -> rust -> corrosion -> kuro5shin. The second level was that it was a reference to Neal Stephenson's Sno Crash character Da5id character. The pseudo-Japanese and l33t-speak spelling was did give it a a cyberpunk flair. https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=kuro5hin+faq+name&source=bl&ots=94uMWwKTVR&sig=kU3aiEolGgfkGBu6SNRkcQJ2D6o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ4eWe_rrMAhUU1mMKHUnXBVAQ6AEIIzAC#v=onepage&q=kuro5hin%20faq%20name&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=...
- chris_wot 11y ago
  To be honest, there was something very awesome about the site layout. When the story submission queue was full and the trolling was only very much in the background, then it was a really good and amazing site. The trolls turned incredibly mean though. They didn't ever come out of the woodwork, and they were completely anonymous. They were the harbinger of what was to come about half a decade later.

> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion" Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..

by gedy 11y ago

> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion" Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..

function_seven 11y ago

Wow, same here. Thought it was pronounced: KEER-oh-shin or keer-OH-shin

userbinator 11y ago

Amusingly enough, if you read it as "kuro-shin" that could correspond to the Japanese characters 黒心, which literally translates to "black heart". That's what I thought the name was supposed to be too.

glandium 11y ago
FWIW, くろ (kuro) is the "kunyomi" of 黒 and しん(shin) is the "onyomi" of 心. Japanese 2-character compound words don't mix onyomi and kunyomi. I don't think there is a character with a "kuro" onyomi or one with a "shin" kunyomi (well, there's 信じる (shinjiru), but that's a reading that doesn't go without the hiragana).
- Grue3 11y ago
  Actually there's a lot of words that mix onyomi and kunyomi. For example, 親身 "shinmi" (relative): both of the characters have onyomi "shin", but 身 uses kunyomi reading "mi" in this word. Other examples are 見本, 強気, 親分, it's more common than you'd think.
  - glandium 11y ago
    Heh, this is where this gets embarrassing... of course, they are common. They are so common that you end up losing track of them, hidden in plain sight. Looking them up, I now discover they even have names: 湯桶読み(yutouyomi) and 重箱読み (juubakoyomi).

jonathankoren 11y ago

It was a joke on multiple levels. The founder was Rusty. Rusty -> rust -> corrosion -> kuro5shin. The second level was that it was a reference to Neal Stephenson's Sno Crash character Da5id character. The pseudo-Japanese and l33t-speak spelling was did give it a a cyberpunk flair. https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=kuro5hin+faq+name&source=bl&ots=94uMWwKTVR&sig=kU3aiEolGgfkGBu6SNRkcQJ2D6o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ4eWe_rrMAhUU1mMKHUnXBVAQ6AEIIzAC#v=onepage&q=kuro5hin%20faq%20name&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=...

chris_wot 11y ago
To be honest, there was something very awesome about the site layout. When the story submission queue was full and the trolling was only very much in the background, then it was a really good and amazing site. The trolls turned incredibly mean though. They didn't ever come out of the woodwork, and they were completely anonymous. They were the harbinger of what was to come about half a decade later.