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

[Raffaele Viglianti]

I like MEI Go! I think it makes immediately obvious what it is for: to get
going with MEI right away, to quickly get started. MEI Lite leaves more
uncertainty on what has been removed to make it lighter and why. Reminds me
of soda and processed food. Finally, I hope exclamation points (or anything
else) are not just the prerogative of commercial endeavors, though I'd be
ok with getting rid of it and just having MEI Go.

Raff

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Craig Sapp <craigsapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pact> with the devil
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/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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