What's in a name, they said.

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Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #15 – December 15, 2012, 09:38:49 pm

Jamii is worse IMO, because the double i doesn't scan well in English. It's not a natural thing to have in English, so the immediate effect is confusion. I'd feel much better about Keskomunya.

That works for me because it's a cool word, and the meaning is easy to find, and as soon as the meaning is found it sticks and sticks well.

Sort of "Keskomunya? WTF does that mean?"

"Ohhhh, it's the Cornish verb for communicate. Cool. I'll remember that.

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #16 – December 15, 2012, 09:46:20 pm

Quote from: Antechinus – December 15, 2012, 09:38:49 pmJamii is worse IMO, because the double i doesn't scan well in English. It's not a natural thing to have in English, so the immediate effect is confusion.

The option here is to try to write it as you would pronounce it... I guess that would be jammy... (ummm...) Or jam2. Or jamtoo. Or jamto.

QuoteI'd feel much better about Keskomunya.

That works for me because it's a cool word, and the meaning is easy to find, and as soon as the meaning is found it sticks and sticks well.

Sort of "Keskomunya? WTF does that mean?"

"Ohhhh, it's the Cornish verb for communicate. Cool. I'll remember that. "

To me, it sounds like 'kesko-mundo', which makes no sense as it is, but knowing 'communicate' it rounds up immediately as 'world of communication'. Strange, huh?

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #17 – December 16, 2012, 08:14:32 am

Quote from: TestMonkey – December 15, 2012, 08:26:33 pmkuwasiliana (http://translate.google.com/#en/sw/communicate)
jamii (http://translate.google.com/#en/sw/community)
jukwaa (http://translate.google.com/#en/sw/forum)
wazi jamii (http://translate.google.com/#en/sw/open%20community)

Remember that now the closing bracket is auto-linked, so you have to add a space after the link!

Quote from: TestMonkey – December 15, 2012, 08:26:33 pm
Quote from: Spuds – December 15, 2012, 06:23:10 pmOr have some fun with Cornish names, you can always use those since they are fun
Keskomunya ... Cornish for communicate

Love it! It can be considered too long to remember... ?

Probably it would be too difficult to spell correctly...at least for me it is if I don't have it in front of me.

emanuele 's brain size is below the average.

Quote from: TestMonkey – December 15, 2012, 09:46:20 pmTo me, it sounds like 'kesko-mundo', which makes no sense as it is, but knowing 'communicate' it rounds up immediately as 'world of communication'. Strange, huh?

http://translate.google.com/#fi/en/kesko or http://translate.google.com/#fi/en/keskonen
and:
http://www.kesko.fi/

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #18 – December 16, 2012, 10:46:49 am

Quote from: Trekkie101 – December 15, 2012, 09:34:28 pmJamii is not bad?

jamtoo ?

mawasiliano http://translate.google.com/#auto/sw/communication
dalleth http://www.wordaz.com/dalleth.html (I like the word

) - 'beginning'
rydh - free in Cornish
rydh dalleth, rydalleth, redaleth, red aleth (lol), redalet, rydalet
nya kuanza http://translate.google.com/#auto/sw/new%20start
nyak (lol) nyakuanza neakuanza (boo).
uusi alku http://translate.google.com/#auto/fi/new%20beginning
usialkoo usyalko usialko alkusi alkusy alkose alkusee alkuse
yeni eveline (?) http://translate.google.com/#auto/az/new%20beginning
majadiliano, mjadala http://translate.google.com/#auto/sw/discussion
meadala myadal meadal

I give up for the day. Looks like I'm doing more bad than good, huh? Ema - just to note, kesko is a different field of endeavour, it doesn't really count (afaik).

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #19 – December 16, 2012, 11:14:33 am

Have to add this.
(English > Indonesian)
words > kata-kata

(> Filipino; > Maltese; > Irish)
salita; focail; kliem

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #20 – December 16, 2012, 03:06:51 pm

It's getting worse. Had it right to start with.

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #21 – December 16, 2012, 07:42:55 pm

refika.

Means probably nothing (anymore). It started off as 'friendly' (rafiki in Swahili), and pronounced like... [re-fi-kai]
http://translate.google.com/#en/sw/friend%20talk

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #22 – December 16, 2012, 07:47:56 pm

This is just like SMF. Somebody comes up with a cool idea. Everybody else starts pulling it to pieces and over-thinking it.

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #23 – December 16, 2012, 08:21:45 pm

A few more for you.

Swahili:
Jengo (building, construction). Simple it is. Jengo.

Jamii (community)
Jumuiya (community)

English to Hausa:
Dadain (simple communication > da dai in > dadain)

... not sure how to mess it up (simply communication > kawai dai in)
... (free community > Da jama'a)

Indonesian:
kata-kata (words). Yep we had it before, it's just too funny.

kata-kata.

TestMonkey also hands a coffee to Ant.

(refikacoffee ftw)

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #24 – December 16, 2012, 09:42:09 pm

Agora - I think means something like an open place, or open market.
Verenda - I think means cool or awesome - .org is available for this name.

For the record I didn't really like Keskomunya that much either. Too many syllables and takes to long to look at to figure out how you want to say it upon first impression.

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #25 – December 16, 2012, 10:21:18 pm

Agora is a marketplace. Not really suitable IMO. That would be better for a shopping cart app.

Verenda is a derivative of verendus, which means awesome. I'd rather use verendus, because it's not so much like verandah.

Mind you, if we call it awesome before we even have a release, some people will think we're a bunch of wankers.

Then again, they probably think that anyway.

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #26 – December 16, 2012, 10:48:38 pm

Quote from: Antechinus – December 16, 2012, 07:47:56 pmThis is just like SMF. Somebody comes up with a cool idea. Everybody else starts pulling it to pieces and over-thinking it.

We needs a secret meeting to decide what to do with Ant, but don't tell him

Agora -- The literal meaning of the word is "gathering place" so thats really not that bad, kind of nice really.

Jengo -- (building, construction) I also like ... sounds good to me, even if it did not mean a darn thing, but we can use it for community building etc

Zwana -- zulu for hear one another; understand one another communicate with each other be friendly ... thats right lets all push out a big virtual hug right now

Ahka -- zulu for build, short and easy to say, although I'm not sure I like the way it sounds, sounds like your choking on food or something.

and of course Keskomunya, ... could be a bit to type in, not that I ever type more than a couple characters and get the pull down or click a link these days ... could just say Kesko for short I guess

Alright, done abusing BabelFish and Google for the night !

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #27 – December 16, 2012, 10:51:01 pm

Would want to check the meaning of Kesko. It might be Cornish for "molestor of virgin goats".

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #28 – December 16, 2012, 10:54:32 pm

The original meaning of 'agora' is open meeting place, the Greek open places which hosted discussions, philosophy, democratic gatherings. The habits of 'agora' have been very well known and have made their way in other cultures.

Without checking, I suspect it's too easily way taken.

Re: What's in a name, they said.

Reply #29 – December 16, 2012, 10:57:33 pm

Yup. It's been done to death