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I wish we could get back to using "Go" as a reference to the board game.
by sdh 17y ago
I wish we could get back to using "Go" as a reference to the board game.
- simplify 17y agoI agree. I got way too excited seeing multiple articles about Go in HN, but started wondering a moment later why there would be more than one such article about a board game, as wonderful as it is.
- dkarl 17y agoWay back when I played go with a few friends in college, we started calling it "baduk" (the Korean term) because the term "go" always took a second to register if you weren't already expecting it based on context. It's a really unfortunate word to try to borrow into English. To name a language "Go" when they knew most of their users would discuss it in English was just stupid.