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Re:Nippon Colors by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:52AM (#22803721)
It's a long list of Japanese color names with accompanying RGB values. Some are well known in Japan (sakura, nadeshiko), the vast majority are obscure.

They also use an off-the-wall half-Hepburn/half-wapuro romanization scheme that's the virtual equivalent of nails on chalkboard if you care about this sort of thing (CYOHSYUN 長春 etc).

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Re:Nippon Colors by earthboundkid on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:58AM (#22803802)
This drove me nuts when I lived in Japan. I can accept "zya". I prefer "ja". GTFO with "jya".
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Re:Nippon Colors by cbracken on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:43PM (#22804809)
On the plus side, kunrei-shiki romanisation, which is the official government style and has been standardised as ISO 3602, is in practice ignored even by that Japanese government.

In terms of nails on blackboards, I ask that you bathe for a moment in the exquisite splendour of the romanisation that is "Mt Huzi", Japan's highest peak.

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Re:Nippon Colors by Freak_NL on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:53PM (#22806253)
Ugh! I share your pain. It's like reading text in English where the author can't figure out the difference between their, there, and they're.

It really is like nails on a blackboard.

> CYOHSYUN 長春

Chōshun.

> Some are well known in Japan (sakura, nadeshiko), the vast majority are obscure.

This project would benefit from a 'common colours' filter.

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Re:Nippon Colors by duxup on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:58AM (#22803794)
Thank you.
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