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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | | English term or phrase: ceramic nature | Hi all,
I am building a website for ceramics, called ceramic nature, and would like to know how the name of the web site would be translated to Japanese (both in characters and transliterated). Thanks very much and a Happy New Year to all of yee! |
| Nikolay GenovKudoZ activityQuestions: 3 (none open) ( 1 closed without grading) Answers: 6
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| | ceramic nature （セラミック・ネイチャー） | Explanation:
If it's a name for a website, I believe "ceramic nature" would do, since it's a name, and usually you don't translate names (eg. McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Sony, etc.). The only exception is that they are transliterated in different alphabets or characters. I would recommend keeping the original name, and listing the name in katakanas next to the original like I did above.
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I wouldn't exactly know the nature by analogy with human nature, but according to Wikipedia, I got the following relationship between humans and the beginning of ceramics.
The earliest ceramics were pottery objects made from clay, either by itself or mixed with other materials. Ceramics now include domestic, industrial and building products and art objects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic
Also, in Japanese, the following sentence:
古くは土器に始まる。日本においては、縄文式土器、弥生式土器に始まり、時代を経て陶器・磁器へと発展し、近年では、光触媒機能をもったセラミックス繊維も開発されている。
I'm not sure if ceramic nature is related to human nature, but at least from the above, we understand that the humans have been related to ceramics from the ancient times and still do in different forms. |
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 Yasutomo Kanazawa
Local time: 04:06
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Explanation:
If it's a name for a website, I believe "ceramic nature" would do, since it's a name, and usually you don't translate names (eg. McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Sony, etc.). The only exception is that they are transliterated in different alphabets or characters. I would recommend keeping the original name, and listing the name in katakanas next to the original like I did above.
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Note added at 16 hrs (2009-12-30 05:51:40 GMT)
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I wouldn't exactly know the nature by analogy with human nature, but according to Wikipedia, I got the following relationship between humans and the beginning of ceramics.
The earliest ceramics were pottery objects made from clay, either by itself or mixed with other materials. Ceramics now include domestic, industrial and building products and art objects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic
Also, in Japanese, the following sentence:
古くは土器に始まる。日本においては、縄文式土器、弥生式土器に始まり、時代を経て陶器・磁器へと発展し、近年では、光触媒機能をもったセラミックス繊維も開発されている。
I'm not sure if ceramic nature is related to human nature, but at least from the above, we understand that the humans have been related to ceramics from the ancient times and still do in different forms.
| | | Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you for the answer. Just one thing before I close this topic and award you the point - my wife, whom the site belongs to, would like to know out of curiousity how would you translate the name (ceramic nature) to Japanese. She means ceramic nature by analogy with "human nature".
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