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Obviously, language learners should never use this. They should take a week or two to learn kana, and use a furigana tool instead. I'm also pretty unconvinced
by junar 6y ago
Obviously, language learners should never use this. They should take a week or two to learn kana, and use a furigana tool instead.
I'm also pretty unconvinced of the article's stated purpose of "readable" URL text. I spot checked a few Japanese news sites (Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi), and none of them try to do this. The URLs just have random alphanumeric article IDs. I don't think romaji is valuable for most readers, who probably find it more effort to decipher it than to simply read the Japanese text in the title.
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- christiansakai 6y agoI don't think this is targeted for language learners.
- danielscrubs 6y agoIt’s in English though, not Japanese...
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoRomaji is quite valuable for search engines, which is why most CMSes use them instead of IDs.
- labster 6y agoCan you suggest a good furigana tool? I’m interested, I probably only know 30 kanji or so.
- polm23 6y agoCheck japanese.io for a recent product. I haven't used them in years but rikai-chan or rikai-kun used to be relatively useful; it looks like there's a newer thing called yomi-chan too. If you're comfortable with Python you should be able to use fugashi to throw together a tool pretty quickly, I've though about doing it before but never got around to it.
- Zarel 6y ago> I'm also pretty unconvinced of the article's stated purpose of "readable" URL text. Here's an example: https://magazine.jp.square-enix.com/biggangan/ https://magazine.jp.square-enix.com/biggangan/ (Notice: "big gangan" rather than "biggu gangan".) While it's true that Japan tends to use numbers for dynamic content URLs, this is more about (and using CMSes that require them) than users actually preferring them. Japanese URLs do frequently tend to be in English, though.
- junar 6y agoI'm not very familiar with CMSs, but what kind of use case would actually benefit from the tool? Your example actually requires human decision-making, since Big Gangan is a proper noun with a canonical English name. I expect most Japanese devs to be as familiar with romanization as English devs are with spelling and grammar, so a tool shouldn't be needed unless you're dealing with a large amount of text and can allow for errors.