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So, since we have them and they're not going away, we should invent a meaning for them. Obviously, one of them will have the meaning "ghost character". Other
by rossdavidh 8y ago
So, since we have them and they're not going away, we should invent a meaning for them. Obviously, one of them will have the meaning "ghost character". Other than that, meanings like "mistake that would have been simple to correct if it had been caught quickly, but now it is too late", or "something that slips through the cracks of bureaucracy", or "mistake that does not cause an actual problem, but seems wrong".
- Agathos 8y agoI like these suggestions. It sounds like they are all suited to commenting legacy code.
- rossdavidh 8y agoOuch. Too true.
- UncleEntity 8y agoI say just leave them alone so drunk teenagers can get them tattooed and get laughed at by native Japanese speakers.
- rossdavidh 8y agoOne of them should mean "that thing when someone likes the look of foreign characters and gets a tattoo or buys a shirt or something, without finding out what it means".
- HelloNurse 8y agoThey could be given sarcastic Unicode names like MEANINGLESS KANJI-STYLE TATTOO #1 to #12.
- ezoe 8y agoAny tattooed Japanese glyph is funny for Japanese because We didn't have a culture for tattooing letters. Especially by 楷書体(regular script)