doc: "A Tour of Go" video says "Japanese" instead of "Chinese"

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https://feedback.corp.google.com/#/Report/1144130140

Description:
Go sounds like a cool programming language, but what bad is that you call Chinese words
as Japanese in your hello world program, that's a serious mistake and offensive!

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Detected language: en

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Comment 1:

Where does it say Japanese? Is this in a video or something?

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Comment 2 by plainaveragemind:

In the video

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Comment 3:

Which video?

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Comment 4:

Oh, I see. The mistake is in Russ' "A Tour of Go" video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytEkHepK08c
Some options, on a scale of least to most effort:
Do nothing.
Acknowledge the mistake with a YouTube video annotation.
If you still have the source of the video, re-record the phrase or edit it out and
replace the video.
If you don't have the video source, download the video and cut that phrase out and
re-upload.

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[dominikh]

Comment 6:

Even if Chinese in origin, don't the Japanese use the same kanji with the same meaning?
Seems like nitpicking to me :/

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Comment 7:

Google Translate indicates they're the same:
http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-CN/world
http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-TW/world
http://translate.google.com/#en/ja/world

[mikioh]

Comment 8:

Looks a bit complicated.
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/beijing_olympics/slogan.html

[rsc]

Comment 9:

I do not speak Japanese or Chinese. I took that word from the title of Rob
and Ken's paper http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html, where it is
part of the larger phrase �$B$3$s$K$A$O�(B �$B@$3&�(B, which I believe to be Japanese.
From
some research it appears that �$B@$3&�(B means world in both Chinese and Japanese,
while �$B$3$s$K$A$O�(B is unambiguously Japanese. By using only part of the phrase I
introduced the ambiguity.
http://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+word+for+world
http://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+word+for+world
So I think the video is correct as written. If I were recording it again I
would say "Chinese or Japanese" or else change the example. But I don't
believe I have the original screencast source file anymore.
I apologize for any offense.

[rsc]

Comment 10:

While Go supports UTF-8, it appears that Google Code's email response reader does not.
Let me try once more:
I do not speak Japanese or Chinese. I took that word from the title of Rob and Ken's
paper http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html, where it is part of the larger phrase
こんにちは 世界, which I believe to be Japanese. From some research it appears
that 世界 means world in both Chinese and Japanese, while こんにちは is
unambiguously Japanese. By using only part of the phrase I introduced the ambiguity.
http://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+word+for+world
http://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+word+for+world
So I think the video is correct as written. If I were recording it again I would say
"Chinese or Japanese" or else change the example. But I don't believe I have the
original screencast source file anymore.
I apologize for any offense.

[rsc]

Comment 11:

Status changed to Unfortunate.