Unfortunately the obvious ones are already taken (lemmy.social, lemmy.org) or incredibly expensive (lemmy.com). Do you have any other ideas for a good domain? Or alternatively, we could just go with lemmy.ml.
Could you provide some examples (genuinely asking)? I kind of always thought that most names either didn’t have meaning at all, or they have attained meaning by doing something very notable, with which they’ve become associated, or meaning if they’re named after some object/notion that represents things in real world
Although I’m sure it varies from language to language…
For humans you can just google name meanings — there’s a lot of research in that regard mostly because by extreme popularity of baby name books.
For example my name is Bernard and that means “brave as a bear” (literal bear’s heart) and Dexter just means right handed in latin (dexi).
Here in Thailand naming is particularly interesting. Most people get two names, one traditional Thai name that means so animal/flower inspired name or abstract meaning, but that’s not the name they go by in public. Instead everyone gets a nickname that sometimes is as silly as “pizza” and by that instead which is such a fun system in my opinion!
As for projects most projects have apt name too, for example reddit is a play on words for “read it” as in “I’ve read it on reddit”. Slashdot is a play on unix directories, google is play on number googol as to imply they have that many search results.
Here in Thailand naming is particularly interesting. Most people get two names, one traditional Thai name that means so animal/flower inspired name or abstract meaning, but that’s not the name they go by in public. Instead everyone gets a nickname that sometimes is as silly as “pizza” and by that instead which is such a fun system in my opinion!
lol, that’s bizarrely cool :)
and yes, ok, some names clearly do have meanings/represented by things in the real world, but I still think that a Lemmy is an interesting and somewhat catchy name :)
Could you provide some examples (genuinely asking)? I kind of always thought that most names either didn’t have meaning at all, or they have attained meaning by doing something very notable, with which they’ve become associated, or meaning if they’re named after some object/notion that represents things in real world
Although I’m sure it varies from language to language…
For humans you can just google name meanings — there’s a lot of research in that regard mostly because by extreme popularity of baby name books. For example my name is Bernard and that means “brave as a bear” (literal bear’s heart) and Dexter just means right handed in latin (dexi).
Here in Thailand naming is particularly interesting. Most people get two names, one traditional Thai name that means so animal/flower inspired name or abstract meaning, but that’s not the name they go by in public. Instead everyone gets a nickname that sometimes is as silly as “pizza” and by that instead which is such a fun system in my opinion!
As for projects most projects have apt name too, for example reddit is a play on words for “read it” as in “I’ve read it on reddit”. Slashdot is a play on unix directories, google is play on number googol as to imply they have that many search results.
lol, that’s bizarrely cool :)
and yes, ok, some names clearly do have meanings/represented by things in the real world, but I still think that a Lemmy is an interesting and somewhat catchy name :)