[MEI-L] Do we have to call it "MEI Go!"?

[Tahee Onuma]

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Just one word, as a Japanese.


Tahee ONUMA (Nation)


2017-03-20 12:29 GMT-07:00 Giuliano Di Bacco <gdibacco at indiana.edu>:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%8D_(unit):
>
> The gō ( 合) is a traditional Japanese unit of area and volume. It expresses
> a tenth of a particular quantity.
>
> -- Giuliano
>
> Craig Sapp wrote on 20/03/2017 20:22:
>
> Hi Don,
>
> It does have a very commercial connotation.  Consider "Yahoo!" which it
> reminds me of:
>      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!
>
> The name perhaps was intended to be a pun on the word "meigo":
>      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meigo
> such as "bewitching, seductive" in Galacian, although if used as a noun:
>     "a person who is believed to have made a pact with the devil"
>
>
> -=+Craig
>
>
> On 20 March 2017 at 12:03, Byrd, Donald A. <donbyrd at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I think the name "MEI Go!" is pretty dumb. Just "Go" wouldn't be great --
>> it's way overused, and doesn't at all suggest that it's a stripped-down
>> version -- and putting an exclamation point at the end of a name always
>> looks to me like an attempt to create excitement about something that may be
>> worthwhile but definitely _not_ exciting. What's wrong with "MEI Lite" or
>> "MEI Basic"?
>>
>> --Don
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Donald Byrd
>> Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow
>> Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
>> Visiting Scientist, Research Technologies
>> Indiana University Bloomington
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