Japanese Arch wallpapers

carwin · 2011-10-14 18:17:01

I've been learning Japanese for a few years now and something that helps me is to surround myself with the language. I change my system language to Japanese, have sticky notes on household items etc... Wanting to keep the theme going, I made some Arch wallpapers.

The text is simply a translation of "A simple, lightweight Linux distribution." Lightweight with katakana was very long so I opted for the kanji form of けいりょう instead.

Last edited by carwin (2011-10-14 18:58:58)

sensei · 2011-10-14 23:53:57

Hey, they look pretty nice!
I've been learning it from time to time myself, only know very basic phrases and grammar (forgotten most of it though). If I had time I might've learned it properly.
Isn't one of the thumb rules in japanese to use kanji as much as possible? Why consider using katakana or hiragana?

Again, nice work!

taylorchu · 2011-10-15 00:05:35

what is the japanese word for "distro"?
I mean that it does not sound like english

sensei · 2011-10-15 00:19:31

taylorchu wrote:

what is the japanese word for "distro"?
I mean that it does not sound like english

I wouldn't be surprised if you used katakana for distribution in this context, if there's an equivalent word in Japanese I don't know.

Google says that the kanji word for distribution is 配布, while the katakana word is ディストリビューション.

carwin · 2011-10-15 00:20:32

Actually I had trouble choosing which word for distribution to use, in the end I opted for using katakana to sound it out, the short form I imagine would be to use "disutoro" or something since we're talking about technology. Maybe ぶんぱい or はいきゅう though, I'm not sure.

boily · 2011-10-16 15:00:05

The Japanese Wikipedia uses ディストリビューション for the Linux Distribution article title, but both the kana and kanji (配布) versions in the body. Nevertheless, I think the kana version is the best for the purposes of your wallpapers' caption.

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