On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:10:18 +0100, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 24 mars 05, à 11:08, Alex Perez a écrit : > > > Stefan Urbanek wrote: > > > >> 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.
Me too :( but toilet sounds like perfume thing too? > > Americans and their "hygienic oriented way of thinking" what a story ! > ;-) > > > 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. > > Well I never lived in US then I cannot have a real opinion on this > point. Paris-Resonance > >> 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 :) > > In French too :) Paris-Resonance > Well I think "resonance" is very neutral unlike words somewhat related > like "echo" or "interference". > > > 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). > > This part of resonance definition is in my opinion what produces the > strong personality of this word. Paris-Resonance fixed it. > > Could not a similar argument be applied to Resonance? When common > > modules are used together, their sympathetic vibrations "amplify" > > their usefulness. > > That's why I have proposed this Resonance name, because modular objects > or modular UI elements would be resonating/talking between them (in a > consistent way because Resonance implies basic similarity between > objects forms to appear)… The propagation of various related resonances > in both system objects network and UI objects network look like waves > or vibrations (notions which embed ideas like evolution, modularity, > flexibility, continuity to take examples). Sandra : Grrrrr I hate GNOME!!! Jennifer : Sandra... Paris-Resonance is all you want. Sandra and Nicole (stop attending her making-up) : I'll install that!
