08-11-2011, 06:08 AM
[quote name='dave9t5' timestamp='1313024108' post='10601']
If you're going to be pedantic, it's actually boke; a standard Romanization of the Japanese word. Bokeh is just an alternative and somewhat Americanized Romanization of it.
The French bouquet seems a perfectly reasonable alternative Romanization and seems to be a very close match to the pronounciation to the the Japanese boke.
Compare pronounciations (click "Listen"):
[url="http://translate.google.com/?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en#ja%7Cen%7C%E6%9A%88%E3%81%91"]boke - Japanese[/url]
[url="http://translate.google.com/?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en#fr%7Cen%7Cbouquet"]bouquet - français[/url]
Quite similar.
As for the meaning of boke, it simply means "blurred" or "out-of-focus". On it's own, it has no meaning about the quality (nor the amount of blur).
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This discussion is very tempting but I will try to stay away from it this time <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />... The bokeh-centric discussions always include a variety of information each and every time, but concerning linguistic approaches for the "meaning" of it, I have to say that they're like grenades...
If you're going to be pedantic, it's actually boke; a standard Romanization of the Japanese word. Bokeh is just an alternative and somewhat Americanized Romanization of it.
The French bouquet seems a perfectly reasonable alternative Romanization and seems to be a very close match to the pronounciation to the the Japanese boke.
Compare pronounciations (click "Listen"):
[url="http://translate.google.com/?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en#ja%7Cen%7C%E6%9A%88%E3%81%91"]boke - Japanese[/url]
[url="http://translate.google.com/?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en#fr%7Cen%7Cbouquet"]bouquet - français[/url]
Quite similar.
As for the meaning of boke, it simply means "blurred" or "out-of-focus". On it's own, it has no meaning about the quality (nor the amount of blur).
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This discussion is very tempting but I will try to stay away from it this time <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />... The bokeh-centric discussions always include a variety of information each and every time, but concerning linguistic approaches for the "meaning" of it, I have to say that they're like grenades...