Hmmm are we over-thinking this a bit? I am for Cordoba myself, but frankly, either is good, and so much better than anything else we have come up with.
Flip a coin? ___________________________________________ LDH (Laurent Hasson) Technical Director, BlackBerry Web Platform Research In Motion Email: [email protected] Mobile: 646-460-7066 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "That's who you remind me of: an evil Mr. Rogers!" - Simon Phoenix ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Torch! ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Plowman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 09:28 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VOTE] rename callback to cordova An important consideration is that while many languages, including English, tend to rename countries (Deutschland -> Germany, España -> Spain, Nederland -> The Netherlands), renaming cities is much less common. Berlin stays Berlin, and the same is true of Madrid, Amsterdam, and so forth. Equally important, in this specific case English-speakers still use "Cordoba." If you Google "Cordova, Spain" (with the quotes), Google will ask you "Did you mean 'Cordoba, Spain'?". I really like that Cordova is the name of the street where Nitobi was based and think that's a perfect basis for naming the project. It has a great answer to the inevitable question "why is it called that?" which other software projects (ahem, GNU) have done a poor job answering. Since far more people have heard of Cordoba the city than have heard of Cordova the street, it makes sense to keep the same great backstory and just change the spelling slightly to better appeal to the majority to whom it sounds peculiar. For those people, I suspect Cordova sounds a bit like "Peking" does to most of us today. For those reasons, I think Cordoba with a "B" is the best option, and it has my vote, though it appears that some sort of re-voting may be required with multiple options so that it is a proper vote. --Ben On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Shazron <[email protected]> wrote: > I appreciate that it is considered a misspelling outside of Spain - > but I believe Cordova is just the name known for Córdoba in the > English speaking world. Like Germany is the English name for > Deutschland or Allemagne in French. > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM, eduardo pelegri-llopart > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Same here. As a native Spanish speaker, I shudder every time I see > Spanish > > names mistreated in the US (and/or Canada). > > > > I appreciate the intent to link the project to the history of Nitobi, > but I > > doubt most Spanish speaking will recognize it as such. Much more likely > it > > will be seen as (yet another) misspelling of a Spanish name. > > > > - eduard/o > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Abu Obeida Bakhach < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> +1 for Cordoba, which is the more accurate pronunciation. Here are the > >> reasons: > >> > >> - the original city in Spain is called Cordoba all right. > >> Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba,_Spain > >> City link: http://www.cordoba.es/ > >> - the Cordova name is a variation that came after in naming the US > cities > >> in the new world. > >> - as a Spanish and Arabic speaker, Cordoba just sounds right :) > >> > >> Thanks for considering > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Shazron [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:05 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] rename callback to cordova > >> > >> +1 for Cordova. > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > The subject says it all. If we're going to change it sooner is better. > >> > We had rough consensus for Cordova in earlier threads so lets make it > >> > official. > >> > > >> > +1 > >> > > >> > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful.
