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Subject: Re: Finding a new troubleless name for KSokoban
From: "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <kossebau () kde ! org>
Date: 2022-08-26 11:30:23
Message-ID: 4906739.a9HWlOh95j () klux
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Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2022, 20:59:10 CEST schrieb Mathias Kraus:
> Saying that, here some proposals by just shuffling around the letters from
> sokoban
> - sabokon
> - sobokan
> - kobosan (technically it is not a prefix :D)
Nice idea :) Shuffling around would be a reference to the game logic, and
those knowing the original game name might detect the reference, so appeals to
me.
Could we even find a version which is a Japanese word that also has some
relation to the game? Myself have only some minimal knowledge about the
language, and mapping back from the English latin transcription to any of
possible Kanji characters and Katakana & Hiragana syllables/moras is a
challenge too big. Still gave it some first try (using jisho.org) and got at
least this:
ιΆγγ (kobo-san) could mean "Mr. Zero" (only know the san part for addressing,
does the name itself work?) and could be spun that either "zero" references
total failure because always blocking one-self or that it references all work
is done down to zero boxes left to push at their place. That ambivalence might
also offer identity both for people suffering to solve levels as well as those
just walking through it :)
On a first quick search seems also the term "Kobosan" is not used in the
software domain, so no conflicts there.
Any Japanese speakers around here who could comment on this option?
Right now myself might have a new favourite here :)
Cheers
Friedrich
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