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(kitten) One time, a friend and I were attempting to install a
CD burner in his machine.
(kitten) The intstructions were translated from Japanese to
English - not too bad a job, either.
(kitten) However, occasionally, they will come across a word
that simply does not translate, so they will use the phoenetic
Japanese.
(kitten) So we wound up with, you click here, you run this,
you do that, ho-shin-kai, you remove the disk..
(kitten) Took it to a friend's father who speaks passable
Japanese - he said "I think it means something like, 'to
breathe the mystic spirit of the dark dragon'."
(kitten) What that has to do with CD burners, I couldn't tell
you.
(kitten) But anyway.
(kitten) I believe that 'zig' is akin to this phenomenon.