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Re: New Go T-Shirt "The Surrounding Game"

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TBH, to me this looks like some poor “jumping the bandwagon” by using a name for Go that has been made famous by the recent documentary “The Surrounding Game”.

Also, shortlink service … where we don't know where it leads to? And missing images? Uhm, thanks, but I will decline.
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Re: New Go T-Shirt "The Surrounding Game"

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Bonobo wrote:TBH, to me this looks like some poor “jumping the bandwagon” by using a name for Go that has been made famous by the recent documentary “The Surrounding Game”
Using 围棋, the millenia old name for Go in its country of origin, is jumping on a bandwagon?
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Post by EdLee »

The etymology between 圍棋 and 囲碁 is interesting. :)
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Re: New Go T-Shirt "The Surrounding Game"

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Drew wrote:
Bonobo wrote:TBH, to me this looks like some poor “jumping the bandwagon” by using a name for Go that has been made famous by the recent documentary “The Surrounding Game”
Using 围棋, the millenia old name for Go in its country of origin, is jumping on a bandwagon?
I don't think that the age old name is "围棋 Тhe Surrounding Game." ;-) The only difference from the title of the movie is using a different character (Japanese variant?) for 围 (clever way of avoiding copyright violation?).
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Post by EdLee »

Hi daal,

Chinese: 圍棋

T-shirt: 囲碁
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