Dear Friends, Just a few hours (and about 200 feet of drainage ditch) ago I read the Gold Economy advert for their very cool conference coming up at the end of March. Looks to be delightful.
On the agenda is coming up with a word for grams of gold other than "ow-guh" for AUG. I think a discussion list such as this one might be a fine forum for considering a few names. What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote Shakespeare, but if we called them "thornyf#ckers" I'll bet they wouldn't sell as well as they do. One name that seems especially appealing is "gold." Gold has an extensive pedigree as a thing of value. Various archeological evidence suggests that gold has been used as a store of value and in commerce for thousands of years. So, why not call grams of gold "grams of gold"? The term is certainly descriptive, it includes that all-important word "gold" and I think people understand what a gram is, even if they aren't fully metric here in Texas, yet. Maybe I've been hanging out with too many Dutchmen, but "grams of gold" seems eminently practical. It may be that "gold grams" is good, too, and that may be why Messrs. Turk have a registered trademark for "goldgrams." Taking a completely different tack, I propose the word "bancor." I admit to stealing this word from the world government types who seek to be the successors to the Feral Reserve System. As I recall, G. Edward Griffin mentions the successor currency to dollars and Euros being conceived of as having the name "bancor." The first part, "banc" represents banking or security or safe storage. The second part, "or" refers to gold. (We use "Au" as the chemical symbol for the element gold because the Latin word for gold starts with those letters. Most Romance languages use "or" or "ore" or "oro" to represent gold, changing the letters but keeping the phoneme.) Why not get there first? Start using "bancor" to mean "a gram of gold which is traded online" before the world gummint types have a chance. Steal a bit of their thunder, rile 'em up, and watch 'em dance. Then there's my final offering: "daug." Pronounced "dawg" as in "that dawg won't hunt" but referring to the digital aspect of these currencies with "d", the gold coming through with "au" and the gram represented by the "g" which is, after all, the "Systeme Internationale" symbol for grams. The Gold Economy advert for their conference sez they want a word "like dollar" which would be easy to use and gain widespread acceptance. Daug is such a word. It isn't in use now for something else, in English, it is easily spoken, has only one syllable, captures the digital, the gold, and the gram in one stroke, and has consonants on either end, so other words can be used easily with it in a sentence. "That'll be two daugs, please, unless y'all want fries with that." Earthy, bucolic, and innocent. Having placed this text in the public domain, I'm going to refrain from registering "daug" as a trademark. But it is tempting. Regards, Jim http://www.GoldBarter.com/ --> win free now & save! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html lets you observe the e-gold system's activity now!
