BOSS Katana: What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen.

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The logo Roland chose for this product line has always seemed to me like something an old-school editor might do when making a correction to a misspelled word.

As a result, I am stuck calling these amps a BORSS.

Here's what I mean:

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The logo Roland chose for this product line has always seemed to me like something an old-school editor might do when making a correction to a misspelled word.

As a result, I am stuck calling these amps a BORSS.

Here's what I mean:

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I see it if I squint really hard and blur my vision, otherwise it looks like a D and not an R 🤷‍♂️
 

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Probably comes with a digital assistant developed jointly with Microsoft:

BORSS CORTANA.

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It's hiragana for "Ka". I agree it looks dumb.

It's like those guys that get inked with non-English characters because they 'looked cool' and had no idea what the actual meaning was when they got it done.

"Dude. Your tattoo means 'restrooms are for customers only'."

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It's like those guys that get inked with non-English characters because they 'looked cool' and had no idea what the actual meaning was when they got it done.

"Dude. Your tattoo means 'restrooms are for customers only'."

Oops. No regerts!
Well, Roland/Boss is a Japanese company so I think they understand what they are what they are doing with "Ka." And I was wrong. It's a katakana character, not hiragana. Katakana is used for rendering foreign words, sort of like how we use italics. "Katana" is a Japanese word that means a long, curved, single-edged sword. Samurai carried two swords, a katana and the shorter wakizashi, which Boss probably should have used for the Katana Mini. A Boss Wakizashi. Kind of has a ring to it.
 

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If there is an ocular equivalent to an ear worm, this thread has now given me plenty.
130SS......wonderful.....I have a 130SS BD-2. Rolls right off the tongue. Actually sounds like a bad AI translation/description for a counterfeit pedal of some kind. Look for one on eBay soon!
 
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