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

[Craig Sapp]

There is also the game of go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

Although in Japanese that is pronounced "igo" (囲碁)

Giuliano wrote:
> Out of curiosity: when you see the word "mei" do you think of anything,
as a Japanese? Just to double check :)

In Chinese, "mei" means beautiful, so could "MEI Go! could also mean "the
beautiful game of go!"

As I don't speak Japanese I can't answer that question, but "me" means
"eye", so "me igo" would be the eye(s) [of] Go (目囲碁), or I know enough
Japanese that grammatically this should be "目の囲碁" (me no igo) or probably "
囲碁の目" (igo no me).


-=+Craig


On 20 March 2017 at 12:37, Tahee Onuma <ohnuma.t at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, it was a mistake. I resend.
>
> ---
> (It's first time for me to email you on this list)
>
> 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)
> >
> > 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
> >>>
> >>>
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