Term Correspondence Chart

This page documents the correspondence of English Tetris-related jargon to established jargon in other languages. Dashes indicate that there is no known translation.

Miscellaneous

 * Machine translation (MT) systems such as Yahoo's Babel Fish tend to mistranslate テトリス (Tetris) as "Tet lith". In Japanese, テト (Teto) can refer to Tết, the Vietnamese lunar new year holiday, on which the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War was fought in 1968. This usage is very rare in Japanese, but popular MT software still has "Tet" in its dictionary and not "Tetris". "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.

Pending Terms

 * Timing your placement rhythm so that the garbage you send cannot be countered - 相殺外し - 借力打力/曲线救国/攻其不备/延后反击(zh-CN)
 * Quick top out due to overwhelming garbage when a game begins - 即死 (즉사) - 开场杀(zh-CN)
 * Receiving/Having a long open column for tetrising - 貫通 - 贯通，超长沟(zh-CN)