What does Atari mean?

Re:What does Atari mean? by glandium on Sunday February 19, 2017 @07:00PM (#13683053)

« the Japanese word 当たり atari which means something like “hit” or “strike” or “to be right.” »

I'm going to be pedantic here, but that's what you would translate it in english in some contexts, not what it means (and I am, in fact, incapable of translating its meaning ; there's a dimension of contact in it, but that's not entirely that either).

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Re:What does Atari mean? by stonemetal on Sunday February 19, 2017 @07:31PM (#13683233)

To add to that the wikipedia page claims : "In Japanese, atari (当たり, あたり, or アタリ) is the nominalized form of ataru (当たる, あたる, or アタル) (verb), meaning "to hit the target" or "to receive something fortuitously". The word 'atari' is used in Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins a lottery."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms#Atari

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