benbassist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5425 days ago 51 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 49 of 297 11 December 2012 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
stifa wrote:
We only called those "datadyr" in Norwegian. :p |
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That's Interesting ;-)
I was sort of joking. I remembered them because of a Memrise note.
Hope we can come up with better name.
Edited by benbassist on 11 December 2012 at 9:04pm
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 50 of 297 11 December 2012 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
I kinda started to like the sound of 悟り.
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 51 of 297 11 December 2012 at 9:41pm | IP Logged |
Tamagotchi might be a step too far, but how about 卵 - since we are all eggs hoping to hatch into fully fledged Japanese speakers, right? Or is this just a continuation of my previous food filled post?
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 52 of 297 12 December 2012 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
Some ideas for team names:
Kakkoe-!
Kimo-kawa
Kizuna
Wabisabi
Onsen
Wa (harmony)
Seyanen! (Osaka dialect)
I'm half-kidding with that last one.
Edited by kujichagulia on 12 December 2012 at 1:30am
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 53 of 297 12 December 2012 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
Team name...
Harakiri and Kamikaze are instantly recognizable but unfortunately the suicide thing may send across the wrong message. Same with Seppuku.
Katana? Well known, powerful, and even a bit menacing ;)
Fugu, as the fish you better don't mess with?
Banzai, or "togeki-raigeki" (torpedo attack!) in the short form "Tora!" (how famous was Fleischer's film)?
Now, TSUNAMI is powerful and even if it's not ultra-short it has become almost a synonym of ANNIHILATION as a loanword in every language -- I can't think of anything that summarizes better the spirit of the TAC.
What do you guys think? Would that make the other teams pee their pants on sight or what?
Edited by mrwarper on 12 December 2012 at 5:15am
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 54 of 297 12 December 2012 at 8:31am | IP Logged |
I don't think the name has to be ultra-short, just short enough to leave room for a few more words in the log-title. Tsumani is fine by me. Everyone knows what it means and it clearly fits in with the idea of annihilation.
Tsunami gets my vote.
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 55 of 297 12 December 2012 at 8:38am | IP Logged |
I kinda agree with 津波 as well.
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Jaseur Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6077 days ago 50 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 56 of 297 12 December 2012 at 11:32am | IP Logged |
Tsunami is not bad but I am worried it could be seen as somewhat insensitive by Japanese
people. I wouldn't want to say to a Japanese person, "I'm on Team Tsunami".
It does fit with "annihilation" though, that's for sure.
I guess my vote stays with the Satori/Zen theme. I was thinking of changing my desktop
wallpaper to reflect the Team name, which would be quite easy to do with Zen.
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