discon [OT]

[Mark Spahn]

Translation is educational.
The word ディスコン appears in a document.
What does it mean?
http://hwe.txt-nifty.com/ubiq/2005/07/post_532b.html
says it means "discontinued" (i.e., a product that is
no longer manufactured and sold). But
http://www.discon.jp/discon/about_discon01.html
says it stands for "disk control", and the accompanying
video shows that this is a game that sure looks like
a complete, iceless, broomless rip-off of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
Here's a 30-second clip of a bonspiel shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM5mFH3_Qhs&feature=related
-- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

[Makoto Sakamoto]

To me, "discontinued" is most familiar. It's an example of poular jargon in any industry or company having overseas operations. You can interpret it as "disk control." Here again, it's all context-dependent, anyway.

Mak