Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text on the web)

Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by lIl-IIIl on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:13AM (#35664687)

There's something to that argument in Japanese. According to [1] Japanese has 643 distinct syllables, while English has about 6949.

There's a lot more context in speech and video games and long-form writing than in random writing and signs. It's virtually impossible to convey a meaning to a product or company name without using kanji.

For example, let's take a company named "Bandai". Now look up "ban" (https://jisho.org/search/ban) and look up "dai" (https://jisho.org/search/dai) and "da" (https://jisho.org/search/da) and "i" (https://jisho.org/search/i), each of which has 3-5 meanings, and tell me which combination of possible words is the company's name derived from? There's literally no way to tell.

[1] https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/36909

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:31PM (#35671091)

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how language works. Determining the etymology of a name is not possible in any language.

What combination of words was "Xerox" derived from? Does that affect the meaning of "Xerox"?

How about "Samuel"?

"Rachel"?

"Ted"?

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by lIl-IIIl on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:07AM (#35697400)

I was originally thinking about names that have intended meanings "Target", "Burger King", "Taco bell", "Pager Duty", "DuckDuckGo", "Texas Instruments", "Aperture Laboratories" etc.

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