There must be much that is missing in Japanese terminology, has not reached translation or does not describe well, or clearly enough, recently invented ideas or concepts. Therefore, I often need to invent new terms, part of which I publish or use privately only.

For some of us if we shared our personal go terms, it would sound like a dirty nursery rhyme.

Hane on the mother @ like a $ son ! @ #, up your ....

Seriously though I think many of the strategic concepts translations are problematic, because they don't yield to simple definitions, and there actually are paralogs in English that already exist, but aren't necessarily well adapted to go. Many of the tesuji names are inane in the original language anyway, so I don't see any point in translating those.

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Do you have any personal go terms?

In the world of science, for the most part only the Germans translate technical terms into their own language.

One that should exist, but that I haven't heard of yet, is a term to describe the sudden realization that your group is dead, and that you have played the past 50 moves assuming that it was alive.

One that should exist, but that I haven't heard of yet, is a term to describe the sudden realization that your group is dead, and that you have played the past 50 moves assuming that it was alive.

'Toothpaste attack': an attack from two side that forces a defender to live by expanding into what would have been your territory or your area of influence.

'Egyptian defense': Adding more stones to a group that is going to die soon.

I’ve seen that in use several times already, and I think the toothpaste attack is also mentioned in SL (or was it you who mentioned it there? ).

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One that should exist, but that I haven't heard of yet, is a term to describe the sudden realization that your group is dead, and that you have played the past 50 moves assuming that it was alive.

Shi-tso!



Also, O-shi-tso! (Most honorable shitso.)

I'm not sure if this is a side attack on RJ, but in any case this is incredibly false, unless "for the most part" is just an English-centric view of the world. I can only vouch for computer science and mathematics terms (since it is where I have most knowledge), but Catalan translates ALL technical terms into Catalan, each year a commission decides what goes in, and how. It adds to the language corpus in a normalised manner. I'm not 100% sure about frequency in Castilian Spanish, but likewise, all technical terms in use eventually get a proper Spanish word to go with it. Icelandic to preserve its language integrity turns all foreign words into Icelandic-similar words. Since these three (aside from English and German) are the languages I'm most familiar with, I can't go on with more examples, but I'd bet French doesn't just take the English word, it wouldn't suit their style. But I guess having Spanish defeats the "for the most part" affirmation.

In the world of science,

for the most part only the Germans translate technical terms into their own language.

I know of few others than German which, for example, do not use a variant of the original Greek or Latin word.

He's talking about things like oxygen versus Sauerstoff, television versus Fernseher, economics versus Wirtschaftwissenschaft... in a large number of cases other European languages opted to simply adopted an international standard with classical roots to their own phonetics, while the Germans often translate the root directly.