Goto (as in "Go to") and Goto (as in the romaji version of one of 後藤, 五藤, 五島, …) is simple two things that sound/look the same when written in ASCII w/o spaces. :)
where the first character means "behind" or "back" and the second character refers to wisteria vines.
(The first character is familiar to some of the martial arts practitioners, because it has an alternative pronunciation, "kō" instead of "go", which is used in the expression "kō-kutsu-shitsu", which is normally abbreviated to "kō-kutsu", and which means "with the back knee bent".)
The last name "Goto" in this case is actually read Gotou (ごとう), but romanization methods are their own flamewar. There's much less emphasis put on the "go" part than the "tou", so pronunciation doesn't actually sound anything like the English word "goto" at all.
Imagine the spanish word gato. Now elongate the "to", and change the ga to go, and you're close.
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Goto (as in "Go to") and Goto (as in the romaji version of one of 後藤, 五藤, 五島, …) is simple two things that sound/look the same when written in ASCII w/o spaces. :)
As a family name, it seems to be:
後藤
where the first character means "behind" or "back" and the second character refers to wisteria vines.
(The first character is familiar to some of the martial arts practitioners, because it has an alternative pronunciation, "kō" instead of "go", which is used in the expression "kō-kutsu-shitsu", which is normally abbreviated to "kō-kutsu", and which means "with the back knee bent".)
Please see: “nominative determinism”
The last name "Goto" in this case is actually read Gotou (ごとう), but romanization methods are their own flamewar. There's much less emphasis put on the "go" part than the "tou", so pronunciation doesn't actually sound anything like the English word "goto" at all.
Imagine the spanish word gato. Now elongate the "to", and change the ga to go, and you're close.
TBF, do we actually know how goto the statement was intended to be pronounced?
It's like saying Bob Gif is pronounced with a J so sounds nothing like the file format.....
Yes, there is only one reasonable pronunciation of the Fortran code word which is an amalgam of the English words "go to".
GIF is an initialism, with no comparable basis.
You mean, it sounds exactly like the file format...
/Please see/goto/
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