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Re:List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup by cincinnatus on Saturday April 16, 2011 @07:48PM (#2455176)
I think it will have a lot to do with the knowledge of the speaker. I saw lots of nihongo looking stuff, plenty of swahili and polynesian looking things too.

Edit: Though it all starts to blur together after the first 10,000 :-)

Re:List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup by ohashi on Saturday April 16, 2011 @07:55PM (#2455186)
Definitely agree with you, it's contextual to each person. I'm Japanese, Japanese stuff stands out to me. Out of curiosity what do swahili and polynesian ones sound like?

EDIT: why can't I reply to you joshu? That sounds interesting, would be curious to see the results.

Re:List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup by joshu on Saturday April 16, 2011 @09:23PM (#2455329)
I've been working on language modeling. I built a word generator which makes medical-sounding names. I wonder if you could rank japaneseness, polynesianness, medicalness, etc.
Re:List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup by ohashi on Sunday April 17, 2011 @11:40AM (#2456315)
If you want to give it a try, I'd be happy to work with you (contact me off my blog)