Stefan Urbanek wrote:
Citát Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:01:40 +0000, Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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- If you have an idea for a name, go on !
- the only "limit" is that we would like a real name, not an acronyme
(KDE, GNU..), at most a composed name.. and of course it should sound
nice, etc., etc.
- Quentin for example proposed "Resonance" which is quite cool imho,
but we need to decide that together.
So, reactions ?
Although I don't care about the name too much,
I do like the "Etoile".
I like the Étoilé, it looks and sounds clean. Other words related to 'Étoilé'
(star) can be: bright, shiny, elegant, calm, hope-bringing... Or if for no
other reasons, then at least for the reason that it has accents :o)))
there's one problem with it, which non-english-speakers may not find any
issue with...to me, it reminds me of t he word "toilet"...I can't help
but think of eToilet, like some Internet-enabled toilet. I'm not trying
to make fun of French or anything ridiculous like that....it's just that
that was the first thought that came to mind when I read the name
sans-french-accent, which many, many, many uninformed Americans
(probably not Brits so much, if at all) will assuredly do.
But seriously, the resonance sounds too hard and evokes negative feelings. Also
the resonance, as majority of people understand it, is usualy unpleasant
effect.
You think it evokes negative feelings, really? In English, we often say
"What he had to say really resonated with me," which is very very far
from being a bad thing :)
Resonance(n)
1. The quality or condition of being resonant: words that had
resonance throughout his life.
2. Richness or significance, especially in evoking an association or
strong emotion: “It is home and family that give resonance... to
life” (George Gilder). “Israel, gateway to Mecca, is of course a
land of religious resonance and geopolitical significance” (James
Wolcott).
3. _/Physics./_ The increase in amplitude of oscillation of an
electric or mechanical system exposed to a periodic force whose
frequency is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency
of the system.
4. _/Physics./_ A subatomic particle lasting too short a time to be
observed directly. The existence of such particles is usually
inferred from a peak in the energy distribution of its decay products.
5. _/Acoustics./_ Intensification and prolongation of sound,
especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration.
6. _/Linguistics./_ Intensification of vocal tones during
articulation, as by the air cavities of the mouth and nasal passages.
7. _/Medicine./_ The sound produced by diagnostic percussion of the
normal chest.
8. _/Chemistry./_ The property of a compound having simultaneously
the characteristics of two or more structural forms that differ
only in the distribution of electrons. Such compounds are highly
stable and cannot be properly represented by a single structural
formula.
Numbers one and two I would consider positive. Number three is neither,
IMHO, although depending on your education and chosen field of study
and/or profession, you may consider it not so good.
Personally, I do not consider sympathetic vibration to be a bad thing at
all...is this what you were specifically referring to when talking about
the negative connotations which you see?
I would suggest to avoid: concrete animals, flowers, technical objects or body
parts. They can be names of ones preferences/likes/dislikes, for example, cats
vs. dogs.
Well, in that case, I vote (er, not) for CatStep ;-)
ADJECTIVES
Either the noun itself should evoke nice adjectives or we can add one.
STIMULATION
Definitely, the name should stimulate one or more of the following:
* friendliness
* progress (as NeXT)
* evolution
* brightness (emotional)
* openness
* modularity
For example, for the Étoilé/star:
* friendliness, brightness - direct possible associations
* openness, evolution, progress - universe
* modularity - less evident, but universe is "composed of objects" - stars :o)
Sun is a star too, it is warm, brings energy to most of the life here...
Could not a similar argument be applied to Resonance? When common
modules are used together, their sympathetic vibrations "amplify" their
usefulness.
