Блоги: заметки с тегом naming

Committed to improving the state of the world

Robert — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:55:19 +0500

Robert:

The World Economic Forum is “committed to improving the state of the world”.

That’s right. State of the world means world state — world government.

Call it Bricks

Robert — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:52:45 +0500

Robert:

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will have 6 other countries join next year.

Let’s call it Bricks from now on.

There is no homosexuality

Robert — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:59:55 +0500

Robert:

Only sodomy.

Kukicha

Robert — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 18:20:02 +0500

Robert:

Kukicha is a good tea.

Its name is especially fun to say. Kukicha!

Truthful names

Robert — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:01:59 +0500

Robert:

Zelensky wears green,
Fetterman is shackled.
Guido’s a leader,
and Trump is a winner.

Bus route naming

Robert — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:58:47 +0500

Robert:

Bus routes should be named logically, so they can be easily memorised.

This is done well in Bologna. The bus to the airport is BLQ, the IATA code for the airport. The one to Fico food mall is F.

The 19th Covid

Robert — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:34:44 +0500

Robert:

Kellyanne Conway recently mentioned that Covid-19 was the 19th Covid. This gaffe was caused by poor naming: the disease should have been called Covid-2019.

Acronyms and abbreviations

Robert — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:45:47 +0500

Robert:

Acronym or abbreviation	Full meaning
AliExpress	Alibaba Express
Amtrak	American track
Gerrymandering	Gerry salamandering
Grade A Under A	Grade A. Underachiever
HBO	Home Box Office
HQ	Hype Quiz
Instagram	Instant telegram
Pac-Man	Program and control Man
PCalc	Programmer’s calculator
Pixelmator	Pixel + mater (to mate)
Qualcomm	Quality communications
Skype	Sky peer-to-peer → Skyper → Skype
Tanzania	Tanganyika & Zanzibar
Uniqlo	Unique clothing
Velcro	Velours crochet
Verizon	Veritas horizon
Walmart	Walton-mart
Yandex	Yet another indexer

The more you know.

Nursultan

Robert — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:49:46 +0500

Robert:

What are all these people talking about? Nursultan is a great name for Kazakhstan’s capital. People named places after their founders for ages:

Washington,
Vladimir,
Saudi Arabia,
Rome,
Liechtenstein.

P. S. Nursultan, Aisultan and all similar names rock.

Abcde

Robert — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:55:00 +0500

Robert:

What are all these people talking about? Abcde is a great name! Yes, it’s hard to get its pronunciation at first, but English isn’t phonetically consistent, so it’s no big deal.

An impossible name

Robert — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:25:44 +0500

Robert:

A review of a person’s name who is friends with my friends.

Çårlø Mãrçölîñï. What a mess! This name can’t be true. Let alone most of the diacritics on these letters are from different languages, some of them are used without necessity.

Çårlø.
Ç. A c that sounds like s in Catalan, French, Friulian, Occitan, Manx. Used in loanwords in English, Basque, Spanish, and Dutch. Similar to the x in Mexico being pronounced h in Spanish. Nothing bad so far.
Å. Similar to a in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, and Greenlandic.
Oops! There’s no point to go further with the first name, as these two letters don’t simultaneously exist in any language.

Mãrçölîñï.
Ã. An interesting vowel used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, Taa, Aromarian, and Vietnamese. Each uses it differently.
With ç already reviewed this last name is doomed.

I know that this name has been stained with diacritics for the fun of a “cool” handle. Nevertheless, it is important how internauts will call you in real life, Sarlœ Marsöligni.

Device names

Robert — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:28:30 +0500

Robert:

Companies, fix your device names! When a first-time customer sees your phone offerings, he has no idea what to pick because it is impossible to find out when something was released without doing research.

Here’s a bad example: Watch Series 3, iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, iPad mini 4, iPad (5th gen), iPad Pro 10.5, iPad Pro 12.9, iOS 11, macOS High Sierra. Ugh!

Apple always strives for the perfect, but as more and more models of products are released, some customers can’t keep up.

Here’s the right way to do it: Watch 2017, iPhone mini 2017, iPhone 2017, iPhone Plus 2017, iPhone X (no need for a year until next year), iPad mini 2017, iPad 2017, iPad Pro 10.5 2017, iPad Pro 12.9 2017, iOS 2017, macOS 2017.

Feel free to contact me for naming advice (for anything, from devices to train stations).