If I were to choose between Unison and Silas, even tho I agree that
Unison is too common, I would choose it.
Silas sounds a bit cacophonous (to use a Greek term) to me. But it might
be just me.
The ending "s"is the problem: we "Latins" would all pronounce it
differently to each other.
A Greek or I would say like "see-las" (with latin A like in "cat"), a
Spanish might have a little different stess, while a French would say
"see-là" (with a short "see" and a strong stress on the A).
So i don't really know... English words are ok to me, as long as there
aren't to many diphthongs.
Wait. Do you say "Do re mi fa sol la /ti/ Do" ? I always studied "sol la
/si/ do" (sound is "see" again).
We should search a bit on how do people do solfeggio...
But if we were to listen to all different Latin-derived pronunciations,
we would never stop searching for names xD
But really, what do you think of these names used for global services,
"Siri" and "Cortana"?
Il 14/09/2015 18:32, Tres Finocchiaro ha scritto:
Unison Studio (or just Unison for short) is pretty short. 3 syllables.
Unison is a nice word, but all too common in my opinion. Perhaps there
should be another bullet point for being unique (enough).
What about "*Silas*"?
It's a Greek-based word. Most Latin-derived languages should be able
to pronounce it with ease. It is a boy's name which means "From the
forest" and also has some biblical references, which I'd prefer to
leave out in respect to people's beliefs.
There aren't any software products using the name either.
-Tres
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Tres Finocchiaro
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What sparked the recent idea was watching "XBMC" change to "Kodi".
I still think something like "Open Tracks Studio" could be an
option
I feel it is a bit too long. I remember when "GAIM" switched to
"Pidgin" and I thought it was ingenious given the logo (which is a
pun, if you didn't know) in addition to the actual word "Pidgin"
(not to be confused with "Pigeon") which gives it meaning.
Firefox was once called the Mozilla Navigator (or more commonly
installed as part of the Mozilla Suite) and has a nice ring to it.
I think balancing a short name (pronounceable too, right?), a
memorable name and a name that means something is the key.
* LMMS is short.
* LMMS is PARTIALLY memorable
* LMMS is NOT easy to pronounce.
* LMMS only PARTIALLY means something.
I even find "Gimp" to work for the 3 bullet points.
But then you have something like VLC:
* VLC is short
* VLC is easy to pronounce
* VLC is memorable (for some strange reason, no one forgets its
name)
* VLC stands for "Video LAN Client" (hardly what it is used
for), so the name is PARTIALLY valid like ours.
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