Term Correspondence Chart

This page documents the correspondence of Tetris-related jargon in English and Japanese.

Machine translation systems such as Babel Fish tend to mistranslate テトリス (Tetris) as "Tet lith". Japanese uses テト (Teto) to refer to Tết, the Vietnamese lunar new year holiday, on which the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War was fought. "Liss" and "Lith" often appear in names of games originating from Japan, such as: Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss, Super Tetris 3 (including Magicaliss and Sparkliss), and the fan game Emlith.