◆ [Date updated: 2021/11/02(Tue) 02:56:29]
■I wonder if the word "post" in reference to writing a post on a BBS comes from
│"posting a letter to the board" or "posting a note" like to an actual bulletin
│board
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└■I think it's the latter - BBSes were invented in the USA as far as I'm
aware, and Americans typically use "mail/mailing" instead of
"post/posting" when referring to sending/receiving letters (hence "e-
mail" and not "e-post"). Americans do however use "post" as in "posting
a public notice for all to see", which is where I believe "posting" in
the context of BBSes comes from
On Japanese boards (including KuzuhaScriptPHP+ and RNS Remix), I often
see "toukou" (投稿) which means submission/contribution (as in
"contributing an article to a newspaper"), "toukou-sha" (投稿者) which
means submitter/contributor, "toukou nichiji" (投稿日時) which means
"submission/contribution date", etc. The direct English translations
are TOO LONG however, so I didn't use them in any of my script
translations (;´Д`)
I did use "submission board" (投稿板; toukou-ban) kinda awkwardly on
bbsdirectory though. If anyone was wondering what the hell that meant,
it means "boards where people submit their own original material to
share with others (usually nudes/amateur pr0nz)"
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