Curt: "I think we also need a good slogan or motto ... I kind of like:
'FlightGear: Educate, Entertain, Inspire.'"
Gijs: "On the FSweekend posters, we had printed out: 'Naturally flying is
free'. I like it ;)"
Curt: "I think this might be a phrase that doesn't quite sounds as smooth in
English as it probably does in the original Dutch. It could be my warped
mind, but when I see the words "naturally flying" (which could be rewritten
"flying naturally" and would mean the same thing) for some reason I think of
flying while dressed as nature intended. :-) But that's not a picture I
really want to communicate in our slogan."
Torsten: "Hehe, THAT was not intended! What a nice, but delicate pitfall ;-)
We better keep this banner away from native english speakers!"
Stuart: "So it's not just me ;) I like the slogan we have on one of the
default splashscreens (the j3cub): 'FlightGear: Fly Free'."
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Torsten -- take heart. Usually I'm able to find deviant meanings in just about
everything (hehe), but I didn't jump to the same image that Curt and Stuart
did. It did come off slightly awkwardly to me but I liked the (presumably
intentional) double-entendre of the freedom of the software with the freedom of
flight that nature's creatures enjoy. Punctuation ("Naturally, flying is
free") would've helped, but that's a subtlety in translation that I wouldn't
expect even a long-time non-native speaker to pick up on.
I have to agree with Stuart on the other half of his message though --
"FlightGear: Fly Free" is a direct, straightforward, punchy, easy-to-remember
catch-phrase, and it would definitely have my backing as an "official slogan"
if we intended to adopt one. Curt's proposal (at the very top of this message)
is an awfully close second in my opinion.
Cheers,
-R.
Robert M. Shearman, Jr.
Transit Operations Supervisor,
University of Maryland Department of Transportation
also known as [email protected]
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