「仮想」と聞くと、かなり前のことですが、日本IBMでシステムズエンジニアをしていた方が「virtualを仮想と誤訳した責任は我々にあります」と反省の弁を述べたことを思い出します。米IBMがvirtual memoryを発表した時、日本IBMが仮想記憶と翻訳しました。virtualの意味は「事実上の」「実質的」ですから、virtual memoryとは「本来のメモリーではないが事実上メモリーとして使える技術」を指します。ところが、仮想記憶と訳したため、実体がない想像上のメモリーという印象を与えてしまい、しかもコンピュータの世界でvirtualが出て来ると必ず仮想と訳されるようになりました。同氏は「もっといい訳にしておけば」と悔やむ所以です。とはいえ今考えてみても、しっくり来る言葉はなかなか見つかりません。言葉の難しさを感じます。
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「言葉のインフレ」は経済のそれよりはるかに恐ろしい：日経ビジネスオンライン 英辞郎を引いてみたら確かに “実体・事実ではないが「本質」を示すもの” とあるな。してみると「ヴァーチャルな社会」なんて言い方も、英語圏の人と日本人では受ける感覚が全然違うのかもしれん。 (via raurublock) (via urume) (via yaruo) (via gkojax) 2010-04-02 (via gkojay) (via k32ru) (via lemp3) (via head) (via katoyuu) (via deka2) (via tost20) (via mamemomonga) (via konishiroku) (via syuta) (via mitukiii) |
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