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That's a transliteration of "click" in Japanese.

Of course, Japanese has its own writing system, and "click" is written as クリック and pronounced roughly as "kurikku").



I need to wonder why people insist on using terrible names like these. It takes careful analysis of the word just to be able to read and pronounce it, and I will certainly never remember it. Especially contrast with Rap Genius, a name that's wonderful in its simplicity (if not its creativity.)


Case in point, I first read this on my phone, and wanted to investigate further now that I'm on my laptop. So I go to HN and no longer see it on the front page, and can't conjure up what I want to search for. Uh, something Japanese-sounding that starts with a "k", I think?




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