Ky: 猫の額爪の垢を煎じて飲む sounds so strange as the description of this library

[kt3k]

The line under the logo reads "猫の額, 爪の垢を煎じて飲む".

I believe these are 2 Japanese idioms, but these don't make any sense to me as the description of this library. And therefore this line is very misleading for Japanese audience.

(Note: This literally means "The forehead of a cat drinks the dirt under the fingernail (of someone noble)")

How about changing this to "極楽要求(しなさい)" (meaning "make a delightful request")?

[sindresorhus]

Sure, I was just trying to be weird in Japanese.

[kt3k]

Hmm, but some of my friends actually confused by that title and avoided trying this library. That looked unfortunate...

[sindresorhus]

Yeah, I'm happy to change to what you proposed. Just out of curiosity, why is the Hiragana part in parenthesis?

[kt3k]

why is the Hiragana part in parenthesis?

Good question! The parens are unusual, but that's inspired by Superdry's usage of 極度乾燥(しなさい). (Superdry is a British clothing company and they use Japanese tag line in a similar way to this library. 極度乾燥(しなさい) was phenomenal in Japan. Parenthesized (しなさい) shows a homage to their attempt and has (maybe) a little funny effect. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdry

[sindresorhus]

Ah, I see. Yes, that's fun. I really appreciate your suggestion. This is much better.

[kt3k]

@sindresorhus Thank you for taking my suggestion! 😄

[oudoulj]

By the way,how do you pronounce the name of the library Ky ?
And what does it mean ? 😃

[sholladay]

@oudoulj for the meaning, see:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky/blob/master/readme.md#what-does-ky-mean

In English, I would pronounce it like the "c" in "car", followed by "eye".