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I was a bit confused by the title. They really shouldn't name a game after a popular programming language.

I wonder why we’ve settled on the Japanese name for the game rather than the Chinese (weiqi) or Korean (baduk) names. Using one of those would make it a lot less confusing.

The game came to Europe and America from Japan, and for decades the only translated foreign literature on it was Japanese.

Whenever I do a google search I use "baduk" instead. I think most people writing about go are smart enough to throw that word in there somewhere.

I do the same sort of thing when searching whenever I run into trouble. Even before Google introduced their language, it was a nearly unsearchable name.

the game is a bit older

Please tell me you did that on purpose.

We will never know. Hack News is filtering Emojis.

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