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Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by wodenokoto on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:43PM (#23796225)
I just want to chime in and say that the author knows what he is talking about when it comes to Japanese and NLP.

Like many other commenters, I am also not sure why you’d want “katsu” transliterated to “cutlet”, but the author didn’t choose to have a tool to do this out of ignorance of the Japanese language.

Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by polm23 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:45AM (#23800805)
Author here, thanks for the vote of confidence!

Regarding the name, it's true that the word "cutlet" isn't typically an example of where you'd want to use the foreign spelling functionality. However it had several other nice points:

1. It follows the tradition of naming Japanese language tools after food the author likes, like MeCab, Sudachi, my own fugashi, etc.

2. It has a concrete image that's easy to convey, which is useful mnemonically

3. It's a very clear demonstration of the foreign spelling feature (even if not a useful one)

4. The word "katsu" is a good example for showing the difference between Hepburn and other romanization systems (katsu/katu)

Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by ihadfun on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:30AM (#23800527)
Because katsu means cutlet, a thin slice of meat. Tonkatsu for example is pork cutlet.
Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by wodenokoto on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:29AM (#23800741)
Transliteration is not translation.
Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by sheepdestroyer on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:35AM (#23800768)
From Wikipedia, that's technically and etymologicaly correct :

"The cutlet was introduced to Japan during the Meiji period, in a Western cuisine restaurant in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo. The Japanese pronunciation of cutlet is katsuretsu.

In Japanese cuisine, katsuretsu or shorter katsu is actually the name for a Japanese version of the Wiener schnitzel, a breaded cutlet. Dishes with katsu include tonkatsu and katsudon."

Re:Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python by wodenokoto on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:20PM (#23804357)
TIL, but in my defense, an abbreviation of a transliteration, which has come to mean something slightly different should probably be considered a new word and not be transliterated back into its etymological ancestor.