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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5131 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 41 of 54 07 December 2013 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
I agree. In the three years I have participated in the TAC finding a name is half the fun, it creates team spirit and it gets less messy if it is done by the actual members of a team in their own thread. Did any of the teams have a problem with this last year? And not everyone will have the technical know how to participate in a poll in an external site. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 07 December 2013 at 12:27am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6394 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 42 of 54 07 December 2013 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's an example, nothing difficult, right? It's better than the HTLAL polls, seriously. Now setting up the poll is a tiny bit harder but surely every team has someone who can figure it out? And if not, people from other teams will help.
IDK, in all my teams it's been awkward to actually start TAC'ing after 10 pages of preparations. And it's not only me who said that team threads were started ridiculously early last time. Maybe it's kinda different for you guys because you celebrate Christmas earlier than me and start preparing for it in September :) I always felt like TAC actually ended in November, and I kinda assumed it bothered others more than it really did (if at all)? I think we should let TAC-2013 run its full course first. Also, we'll have a whole year for our precious team spirit. How about a general TAC spirit? ♥ I do think that there's not enough TAC talk that's not team-specific, and that hanging out all together is underrated. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5131 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 43 of 54 07 December 2013 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hm. The thing about team spirit is that it is something you need most in the beginning, when many are new to
each other and it is practical for everyone to focus on a common task. I have been to a number of courses in management and team building through my work, and often we start with the task of creating a name, a team logo and the leader - just to get us started. I think a thread like this can be useful in throwing about some names that can be used by the teams as they assemble, but in the teams I have been on, spending time on finding a team name, leader, song, poem whatever, among ourselves has been very effective and fun as a kick off thing. It gives us a lot of laughs and help giving us a good time. 11 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6394 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 44 of 54 07 December 2013 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good for you. In my experience choosing a name is a stressful process that I want to be more transparent and fair.
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5882 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 45 of 54 08 December 2013 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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prospective members of Team Mandarin :)
The past two years the Asian team has held the names “dragon” and “crane”. I don’t pretend to know much about the culture since I just started learning two months ago, but if the new team wants to follow the tradition of using animals might I suggest 鹰 – eagle “strength” (another flying creature) 鹊 – magpie /bird “attracts joy connected to the unity of people” (I like this one not only for the symbolism but it’s also a common bird where I live) 苍鹭 – heron „wishing for positive future, success in ones doing“ 大象 - elephant "strength, astuteness" Of course, I’ll personally need the elephant more for its western symbolism -- the memory of an elephant that is ;) Baronbill, Ellasevia, Js6426, Ninibo or anyone else have an idea? Edited by Sunja on 08 December 2013 at 10:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ninibo Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 3813 days ago 88 posts - 116 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 46 of 54 08 December 2013 at 10:12am | IP Logged | ||
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@Sunja
How about 蝙蝠 for luck? I could use some luck. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6706 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 47 of 54 08 December 2013 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps it was the year of the Dragon that year? I don't think there is a crane in the zodiac, though (however, we have a member with that name).
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5882 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 48 of 54 08 December 2013 at 11:19am | IP Logged | ||
I had to google that for myself and I found nice blog about bats in chinese culture. Edited by Sunja on 08 December 2013 at 11:20am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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