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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: creating a new language
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:01:10 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:51:25 +0200, Joerg Meier wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:54:30 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:
> 
>> On 7/24/2013 6:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 7/24/2013 4:24 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:06:24 -0700 (PDT), mcheung63@gmail.com wrote,
>>>> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>>>>    creating a new language, i want to call it Titan.
>>>> It is easy to pronounce, but it already has two meanings -- the moon
>>>> and the giants of Greek mythology.  It might also get confused with
>>>> Titian the artist.
> 
>>>> For google, you want a unique spelling.
>>> So Java is doomed because there is an island with that name.
> 
>>> And C# is doomed because that is used in music.
> 
>>> I don't think so.
>>      He could try "hiybbprqag" ...
> 
> How about T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM ?
>
I was going to suggest Yggdrasl but it has a number of other uses already.
OTOH Beta-2 is pretty much unambiguous despite its SF antecedents.


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