Re: [edict-jmdict] Policy on names

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********>]

2010/7/12 Jeroen Hoek <mail@jeroenhoek.nl>
> 2010/7/12 Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com>:
> > What! No Mozart! ベートーヴェン?
>
> Good point, I hadn't considered that; but where do you draw the line?
> シーボルト? ブッシュ? 紫式部?

Where indeed.

> Heh, searching for ブッシュ gives the "bush" (as in a plant) entry with an
> example sentence: ブッシュが大統領としてレーガンのあとを継いだ。Reagan was apparently
> succeeded by a shrub.

I have fiddled the indices in Tatoeba. Sadly there isn't a sentence
referring to the botanical bush.

Jim

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Jim Breen
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