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> The quality is not amazing but I'm surprised this is supported at all. I find this line hilarious for some reason. Reminds me of the line about being a touri

> The quality is not amazing but I'm surprised this is supported at all. I find this line hilarious for some reason. Reminds me of the line about being a tourist in France, "French people don't expect you to speak French, but they appreciate it when you try"

whoisjuan 7y ago
Was OP referring to the fact that V8 namespace is available inside JSFiddle? Because I was a bit surprised about that and made me wonder if opening this JSFiddle on Safari would work at all (I’m on a phone so I can’t test).
- darkerside 7y ago
  That's funny. Not at all the way I read it, but it could totally be read that way. Made me do a double take. Still, I think my original reading is correct, because I don't think there is any issue with the "quality" of v8 inside of jsfiddle. While imagining Chrome doing its best to identify real words in long strings of Japanese text and failing spectacularly just made me laugh again.
- yftsui 7y ago
  The fiddle doesn't work on Safari. TypeError: Intl.v8BreakIterator is not a function. (In 'Intl.v8BreakIterator(['ja-JP'], {type:'word'})', 'Intl.v8BreakIterator' is undefined)
- polm23 7y ago
  OP here, I was not referring to it working JSFiddle, just the idea of Chrome shipping with a Japanese tokenizer. I've known people to do stuff like compile MeCab with emscripten to get Japanese tokenization in Electron, so the fact that the functionality was there already (even with lower quality) was surprising.
curiousgal 7y ago
Being a resident of France I have to say that French people are the opposite of that. Same for Japanese people. The only people who get genuinely excited as you butcher their language are Arabic speakers I've noticed.
- mattigames 7y ago
  I hate that, how are they supposed to improve their language level if not by trying to speak it.
- darkerside 7y ago
  Yeah, I think the intent of the phrase is to convey the condescending attitude you might encounter, but expressed it in a subtle way. Maybe too subtle!
- superasn 7y ago
  Same for Indian people. Everyone gets super excited when foreigners speak even one single sentence in Hindi.
- toast0 7y ago
  As a tourist in Paris about 10 years ago, I felt I had better interactions when I butchered the language and then switched to english after the person I was speaking with did, than when I just started off in english. I only knew a handful of phrases though, so anything off script and I was pretty lost.

whoisjuan 7y ago

Was OP referring to the fact that V8 namespace is available inside JSFiddle? Because I was a bit surprised about that and made me wonder if opening this JSFiddle on Safari would work at all (I’m on a phone so I can’t test).

darkerside 7y ago
That's funny. Not at all the way I read it, but it could totally be read that way. Made me do a double take. Still, I think my original reading is correct, because I don't think there is any issue with the "quality" of v8 inside of jsfiddle. While imagining Chrome doing its best to identify real words in long strings of Japanese text and failing spectacularly just made me laugh again.
yftsui 7y ago
The fiddle doesn't work on Safari. TypeError: Intl.v8BreakIterator is not a function. (In 'Intl.v8BreakIterator(['ja-JP'], {type:'word'})', 'Intl.v8BreakIterator' is undefined)
polm23 7y ago
OP here, I was not referring to it working JSFiddle, just the idea of Chrome shipping with a Japanese tokenizer. I've known people to do stuff like compile MeCab with emscripten to get Japanese tokenization in Electron, so the fact that the functionality was there already (even with lower quality) was surprising.

curiousgal 7y ago

Being a resident of France I have to say that French people are the opposite of that. Same for Japanese people. The only people who get genuinely excited as you butcher their language are Arabic speakers I've noticed.

mattigames 7y ago
I hate that, how are they supposed to improve their language level if not by trying to speak it.
darkerside 7y ago
Yeah, I think the intent of the phrase is to convey the condescending attitude you might encounter, but expressed it in a subtle way. Maybe too subtle!
superasn 7y ago
Same for Indian people. Everyone gets super excited when foreigners speak even one single sentence in Hindi.
toast0 7y ago
As a tourist in Paris about 10 years ago, I felt I had better interactions when I butchered the language and then switched to english after the person I was speaking with did, than when I just started off in english. I only knew a handful of phrases though, so anything off script and I was pretty lost.