OneEye Posted July 15, 2014 at 01:34 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 01:34 PM A while back I mentioned that I was joining a company started by some friends of mine here in Taipei. Our goal is to create high quality, well-researched tools for language learning. We will make books, dictionaries, software (both desktop applications and apps for mobile devices), websites, data for other applications, etc. Our first product will be a dictionary for learning Chinese characters for English and German speakers. It will make use of the latest research in Chinese palaeography, memory techniques, and language pedagogy to create a system that is etymologically accurate, pedagogically sound, and will tremendously boost long-term retention and predictive ability. We have several other projects planned after that, but we're not quite ready to announce them yet. Our Chinese name is 久茂語林, but we still need an English name and we're looking to you for help. For our English name, we would like a name that encompasses any or all of the following concepts (and isn't Chinese-specific): intelligent learning, linguistic research, effectiveness, high quality, well planned, innovative, integrated system, systematic, etc. We've posted this to our Facebook feeds too, so the winning name may not come from Chinese-forums (though I personally am hoping it will). If we use your suggestion, we'll wire you NT$5000 (about US$166). If we use a modified version of it, we'll send you NT$3000 (about US$100). The contest ends on the 22nd of July. Edit: It's over, and we've decided on Outlier Linguistic Solutions! Thanks for the suggestions! 4 Quote
Basil Posted July 15, 2014 at 01:51 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 01:51 PM Lingo Linguistic Intelligent Next Generation Octopus May your tentacles rule the world! You can see I got stuck at O. Pretty hard to get even one concept into a word, let alone several. Lingo... You might as well just wire me the money now... 2 Quote
OneEye Posted July 15, 2014 at 02:20 PM Author Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 02:20 PM LingOctopus. To clarify, those concepts don't necessarily ALL need to be in the name. They're just a few ideas to point the way. Quote
roddy Posted July 15, 2014 at 02:23 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 02:23 PM The Most Comfortable Chinese-Learning Company You Will Ever Run Into, Ltd. Innoling. It's a bit bland, but it does have the advantage that the .com domain is currently available. For now... 2 Quote
Coys1991 Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:07 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:07 PM "A New Generation of Introducing Chinese" "Conquering Chinese in a New Way" "Conquering Chinese" "Chinese: Plain and Simple". "The Theory Behind Learning Chinese" I can think of more later, but this is what I have so far in my head. Quote
OneEye Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:14 PM Author Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:14 PM I should have made this more clear in the original post, but we don't want the name to tie us to Chinese (or any one language, language family, or region), because we want to branch into other languages later. Quote
mikelove Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:28 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:28 PM FWIW, we've been looking to either commission or license a dictionary like this for quite some time, so if you're interested in potentially working together you can write me at mikelove@pleco.com. 2 Quote
Guest realmayo Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:32 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:32 PM I thought Linguicity but it already exists. Quote
roddy Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:33 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:33 PM See, someone comes on here trying to give away money and they get offered a business deal. It's the place to be... PS Have I won yet? Quote
Coys1991 Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:38 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 03:38 PM @OneEye ok I see now "The Beauty of Language" "Languages: Becoming Second Nature." "Language Is Linguistic" www.LIL.com=? "Languages Made Easy" Quote
Basil Posted July 15, 2014 at 04:03 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 04:03 PM Mindmark Two meanings, English, the products make indelible marks on the mind/memory German mark, as in Altmark, Neumark, fortressed border regions. Building an impregnable memory fortress. I hope you're noting these down, thats at least 200 dollars now... 1 Quote
Shelley Posted July 15, 2014 at 04:50 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 04:50 PM One offering from me for the moment. Language Coach. Or maybe: Language Learning Coach Or: Language Study Coach I like the idea of having a coach rather than a lecturer or a teacher. Seems like you will get help and guidance but not in a childish school room way. Quote
Hofmann Posted July 15, 2014 at 06:19 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 06:19 PM Language Conservatory Quote
Kenny同志 Posted July 15, 2014 at 11:52 PM Report Posted July 15, 2014 at 11:52 PM Maybe Language Wonderland? On a side note, 永茂語林（or 常茂語林）might be better than 久茂語林, IMHO. Quote
Shelley Posted July 16, 2014 at 12:24 AM Report Posted July 16, 2014 at 12:24 AM Language Workshop Or Language Study Group Quote
MPhillips Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:06 AM Report Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:06 AM This one doesn't seem to be taken yet: www.newlanguagelab.com Quote
Popular Post imron Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:48 AM Popular Post Report Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:48 AM I don't have a name, but I do have a suggestion. Your name won't define your company, but your company does have the opportunity to define its name - think Pleco, Anki and others. Rather than trying to shoehorn all those meanings in to a name, pick an unrelated word that you like and use that. Then produce products of a quality such that you define the word. 6 Quote
Basil Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:50 AM Report Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:50 AM Excellent suggestion. feel free to call your new company Basil. 2 Quote
MPhillips Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:59 AM Report Posted July 16, 2014 at 05:59 AM @imron: Your suggestion makes a lot of sense--probably better than my boring idea. But although Pleco sounds like a neologism, "anki" is the Japanese word for memorization(暗記). 1 Quote
imron Posted July 16, 2014 at 06:24 AM Report Posted July 16, 2014 at 06:24 AM Well, there you go. You learn something everyday. Quote
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