Le 24 mars 05, à 11:08, Alex Perez a écrit :
Stefan Urbanek wrote:
I like the Étoilé, it looks and sounds clean. Other words related to
'Étoilé'
(star) can be: bright, shiny, elegant, calm, hope-bringing... Or if
for no
other reasons, then at least for the reason that it has accents :o)))
there's one problem with it, which non-english-speakers may not find
any issue with...to me, it reminds me of t he word "toilet"...I can't
help but think of eToilet, like some Internet-enabled toilet.
Americans and their "hygienic oriented way of thinking" what a story !
;-)
I'm not trying to make fun of French or anything ridiculous like
that....it's just that that was the first thought that came to mind
when I read the name sans-french-accent, which many, many, many
uninformed Americans (probably not Brits so much, if at all) will
assuredly do.
Well I never lived in US then I cannot have a real opinion on this
point.
But seriously, the resonance sounds too hard and evokes negative
feelings. Also
the resonance, as majority of people understand it, is usualy
unpleasant
effect.
You think it evokes negative feelings, really? In English, we often
say "What he had to say really resonated with me," which is very very
far from being a bad thing :)
In French too :)
Well I think "resonance" is very neutral unlike words somewhat related
like "echo" or "interference".
Resonance(n)
1. The quality or condition of being resonant: words that had
resonance throughout his life.
2. Richness or significance, especially in evoking an association or
strong emotion: “It is home and family that give resonance.... to
life” (George Gilder). “Israel, gateway to Mecca, is of course a
land of religious resonance and geopolitical significance” (James
Wolcott).
This part of resonance definition is in my opinion what produces the
strong personality of this word.
Personally, I do not consider sympathetic vibration to be a bad thing
at all...is this what you were specifically referring to when talking
about the negative connotations which you see?
ADJECTIVES
Either the noun itself should evoke nice adjectives or we can add one.
STIMULATION
Definitely, the name should stimulate one or more of the following:
* friendliness
* progress (as NeXT)
* evolution
* brightness (emotional)
* openness
* modularity
For example, for the Étoilé/star:
* friendliness, brightness - direct possible associations
* openness, evolution, progress - universe
* modularity - less evident, but universe is "composed of objects" -
stars :o)
Sun is a star too, it is warm, brings energy to most of the life
here...
Could not a similar argument be applied to Resonance? When common
modules are used together, their sympathetic vibrations "amplify"
their usefulness.
That's why I have proposed this Resonance name, because modular objects
or modular UI elements would be resonating/talking between them (in a
consistent way because Resonance implies basic similarity between
objects forms to appear)… The propagation of various related resonances
in both system objects network and UI objects network look like waves
or vibrations (notions which embed ideas like evolution, modularity,
flexibility, continuity to take examples).
Vibrations is a key idea in some "new" physical theory like Super
strings theory etc. :-)
hmm I defended Resonance in this mail, but I'm not saying that's the
right word…
Quentin.
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Quentin Mathé
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