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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 57 of 297 12 December 2012 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also like Zen, but I don't think we should use Satori. I think people in general would associate Zen with Japan, but aside from those interested in Buddhism, I don't think many people will know what Satori is. Even many people studying Japanese might not know it.
I'd be happy with Zen, Tsunami, or Samurai. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 58 of 297 12 December 2012 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, "tsunami" still brings up images from the Spring of 2011. That was a really tough time here in Japan.
Why not 全滅（ぜんめつ）? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 59 of 297 12 December 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like Samurai or Zen. You could also say Bushi, for samurai. How about Team Tensai,
meaning genius? We are genius people! :) I don't think Tsunami would be a good name, especially since Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami not that long ago. Not wanting to send the wrong message here. What do you think? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 60 of 297 12 December 2012 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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They are all good ideas, but for some reason unkown to me, the name has to be something
that the average Joe who doesn't care about Japan at all can associate with Japan. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jaseur Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6077 days ago 50 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English* | Message 61 of 297 12 December 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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How about Team Godzilla? (destructive, well-known, inoffensive)
Or Team Asahi? (well-known, at least as a beer!) Note that some of the other teams seem to have entirely foreign names. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 62 of 297 12 December 2012 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't really care about names, so I'm fine even with "U" -- even if for me, as a Spanish speaker, the first things that it evokes are grunting sounds or noises or "uh?". However, I think if we're going to do it, we should do it well, and we need to ask ourselves how team names are perceived from the outside. Let's imagine a language we don't speak at all, and that there's a team called "@%&", or "ltgfrv". How interesting, inspiring, etc. does that sound? I know I won't even have a look at teams whose names leave me with a blank face. The problem with names like Tsunami and such (anything remotely violent, even if not real) is that there always will be someone who finds them too aggressive, offensive, inappropriate, or insensitive to the problems of drunken lemurs. While I'm not up for naming stuff after serial killers or the like, life isn't always pleasant for everyone, and it if were, we'd all be probably bored to death -- isn't the TAC a competition of sorts anyway? If the 'not real' part helps, Godzilla is fine, and I'm not sure about these (universality?) but I like Majinga and Gon -- but let me tell you this right here, right now: if we end up as Team Hello Kitty or something, I'm out ;) Edited by mrwarper on 12 December 2012 at 6:10pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 63 of 297 12 December 2012 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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1) Godzilla's cool
2) Every word people can associate with Japan is either offensive (tsunami) or silly (hello kitty). Team Gojira would be an awesome team name. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 64 of 297 12 December 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now that I think about it, Team う is growing on me. I guess I get a kick out of seeing
Japanese characters, it personalizes our team, but whatever floats our boat! Team Asahi is a good second, too :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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