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

[Tahee Onuma]

Sorry, it was a mistake. I resend.

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Just one word, as a Japanese.
When we see the word "Go", no Japanese would think of 合, though it's a
familiar unit of measurement.

Tahee ONUMA (National Library of Japan)


2017-03-20 12:33 GMT-07:00 Tahee Onuma <ohnuma.t at gmail.com>:
> (It's first time to email you on this list)
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> Just one word, as a Japanese.
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> Tahee ONUMA (Nation)
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> 2017-03-20 12:29 GMT-07:00 Giuliano Di Bacco <gdibacco at indiana.edu>:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%8D_(unit):
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>> 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
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>> 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
>>>
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>>> Donald Byrd
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>>> Visiting Scientist, Research Technologies
>>> Indiana University Bloomington
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