I like how you think. very cool. will you somehow rename the Gitorious page(s)
Also, I the your (lightly edited) project overview up with very little effort. Please edit away. --- Ron K. Jeffries 805-567-4670 On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Werner Almesberger <[email protected] > wrote: > Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > > After logging in, I searched "pwsafe" and found what seems to be a > > different project, a Linux program. > > Hmm, maybe the name I picked is a tad too generic :-) > > Let's try to find a better name ... > > Using Google Translate, I translated "unlock" from English to Urdu. > > Urdu, because I was looking for themes around "open sesame". Now, > the corresponding language there would be Arabic, but I didn't > find anything nice-sounding there. > > The closest place for (to Westerners) obscure languages would be > Persian, but "unlock" becomes "gushwdn" or "gushewden" which both > sound somewhat odd. "Key" would be "kelad" but that domain name is > too good to not already be taken. > > Continuing in the same direction, there is Urdu. For "unlock", > Google Translate suggests "انلاک" (this shows empty in my xterm but > I suppose copy&paste did place something there :) > > Then I went to http://mylanguages.org/urdu_romanization.php and > "romanized" it, getting "anlak". But it mentions that this still > needs "cleaning up". (Besides, that domain name is already taken.) > > This is to be done on http://mylanguages.org/romanization_cleanup.php > yielding "anelak". Now, that's almost "unlock". Could it just be a > transliteration instead of a translation ? > > Going back to Google Translate and translating the original glyphs > to German (to avoid getting a mere transliteration), I get "Schalte". > In French, "Déverrouillez". Spanish, "descubrir". So the translation > seems to be genuine. > > Now, "anelak.com" is of course taken as well. But "anelok.com" seems > available, and a Web search yielded a very moderate number of hits > for such a short name. > > Now, the moment you speak in public about a domain name, chances are > some bot will snatch it. So I went to joker.com and registered it. > Joker also offered some more TLDs, one oddly appropriate: .pw > > So, welcome anelok.com and anelok.pw both pronounced "unlock", of > course ;-) > > Any comments ? Reasons not to use that name ? > > > I will attempt to put your project overview in the wiki on your > Gitorious, > > if that is OK. > > That's perfect, thanks ! I'd like to keep the main page relatively > compact (i.e., no link farm or TL;DR text), so please make this a > sub-page. > > - Werner > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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