09-01-2015, 11:06 AM | #31 |
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Re: Alternate Names for the Internet [IW]
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09-01-2015, 11:19 AM | #32 | |
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The archetypcal german loves two further aspects of language then compound words: 1. ridiciously long phrases trying to describe something via it's function as exactly as possible 2. Abbreviations of such phrases I present: Weltweites Elektronischen System zum Austausch von Information (Worldwide Elektronical System for Exchange of Information) And abbreviated: WESAI (or WESEI, in English) |
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09-01-2015, 11:29 AM | #33 | |
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In the example of the OP: What we call a Tank the German is "Panzerkampfwagen" (sp?) which is basicly Armored Battle Wagon. |
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09-01-2015, 11:30 AM | #34 | |
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09-01-2015, 12:49 PM | #35 |
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Thank you so very much! Some of these are really good.
My own research based on some basic ideas thrown out there came up with "drahtgitter". It translates to the wire-lattice. It also translates to wireframe, so that may not be as solid, though google translate claims its not the principle phrase wireframe translates to. The Japanese fish idea is kind of neat. And using a Japanese term for net is appropriate, given the first metaphor. so we have the saba ami -- the mackerel net. I ended up using 'infobahn' for my immediate use. Its not as likely as some of the others, but it conveys a strong German flavour, communicates what it does, tell you this isn't Kansas, and is memorable. Lots of them are really solid though. I struggling with the japanese part because google translate for English to Japanese is spotty. For everything I've checked its exclusively used their system for incorporating foreign words. I looked up tapestry and got an obvious derivation. Which I thought might be because the japanese may have gotten tapestries from europe (odd, but possible). Then I looked up net, and google gave 'netto'. There was no way they didn't have their own word for net. So I looked up a glossary of fishing terms and found the word: ami. a three letter word google translate didn't think was important enough to mention! Tapestry, it turns out, doesn't translate directly unless you cheat and use the foreign word import system. but Tareginu, which implies hanging silk, a curtain, or a tapestry, seems a decent fit. By all means don't stop! I still need good portugese and japanese options. Or at least enough to know the ones we have now are the good ones.
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09-01-2015, 02:20 PM | #36 |
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Could go more humorous, which can sometimes be what names stuff.
"The podium" - place where people keep talking at the rest of the world. "The Endless Commercial" - Oh look at all these ads that popup everywhere. "Neuralizer" - Thought turns off when you're in front of media! "Vortex" - It sucks you right in and you're a junkie. "Electro Drug" - Getting high on google browsing? |
09-01-2015, 02:54 PM | #37 |
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Jōhōmō (情報網) is the native Japanese for "information network", although probably wouldn't be used much in OTL (just as they prefer kamera to shashinki, they prefer infoomashon netto to johomo).
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09-01-2015, 05:50 PM | #38 |
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09-02-2015, 12:44 AM | #39 | |
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Connectome is the set of connections and lack of connections or degree of connections between elements in a neural network. Mathematical treatments of networks involve graphs where vertices (nodes) are connected by edges. Or not; a figure is one or more nodes ultimately connected by edges, while a disconnected node has no edges, and there can be several unconnected figures within a graph. A figure where there is only one path along the edges between any given nodes is a tree, and a minimum spanning tree connects all the given nodes with the shortest possible edges, or cheapest links, etc. Several tree figures in the same graph are a forest. A figure that , unlike a tree, has more than one possible path between nodes is called cyclic, and the circular path itself is the cycle. They can have higher or lower degrees of connectivity, as in a 3-graph has all nodes of degree 3, or more, with 3 or more edges connecting other nodes to it. A path that includes all nodes in a graph without repeating is a Hamiltonian path. If there is one more edge that connects the Hamiltonian path's ends, that cycle is also called Hamiltonian . |
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09-02-2015, 02:43 AM | #40 |
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"Net", "Network" and "Web" all relate to the idea of the internet as a a huge number of connections. If you visualized it, it was like placing a web or a net over the globe. I've seen lots of suggestions relating to that. Grid, matrix, tangle, tapestry, lattice.
The internet is also a complex technological system. We didn't call our phone systems "networks," despite also being a series of connections. We just called it a system. We could also use words similar to that: the protocols, the structure, the arrangement, the organization, the combination. I'll admit they sound odd, but no odder than "system" if you think about it. "Combination" or Cooperation particularly appeals to me because that's actually what a network is. In ye olde days, we didn't call people or e-mail them, we wired them something over the telegraph system (radio was called "the wireless" for awhile). What if we had steampunk calculation engines that originally used telegraph machines to communicate with each other? Then you'd be getting things "over the wire." An advanced version might be "the wireless." The medium itself might matter: the coding engine, the fiber, the optics, etc. Then there's what it actually does: It's a system for gaining access to remotely stored information. We actually have a word for that now: the Cloud (which is beginning to replace "the internet" in some buzz-wordy business-lingo), the archives, the library, the data-stores, etc. And, of course, like with "the cloud" some random, buzz-worthy word might take over. It could be the Forest (computers often structure their files as "trees" and a bunch of trees in a single organization is actually called a forest, so this would actually make sense), or it could be shortened from some corporation name or brand name, the same way all tissues have become "kleenex" or all breath mints have become "life savers". Imagine if everyone just called the internet AOL! So it might be the electro-net, or cyber-combine, the Yahoo!, the macro-library.
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