Riot is now Element

Post by fomine3 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 7:15 AM UTC

tyrust wrote: post #318

mywittyname wrote: post #309

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I don't even play LoL and I still think of Riot = Riot Games. I'm willing to bet that was also a factor in their name change. In fact, a quick Google search for Riot brings up Riot games as the first result and the wikipedia entry for them appears on the side bar. So I'm guessing this was the case for the vast majority of Americans.

From the article: >This name change has been a long time in the making. As we explained when we announced the rebrand a few weeks ago, we’ve had major issues with a certain gigantic games company which has blocked us from being able to trademark Riot or even Riot.im - a huge issue when it comes to defending users against abusive forks of the app.

Post by izietto » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 8:42 AM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #337

izietto wrote: post #16

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Yeah they are taken, I meant a name of that kind, rather than an already existing word that is pretty common too

Slack is an existing word that's pretty common word, though, which was my point. So are Zoom, Medium, Apple, Windows, Segment, etc. We just don't remember that sometimes, because the company has redefined the word.

Post by ggpeti » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 9:34 AM UTC

throwaway287391 wrote: post #270

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #173

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Whatsapp can be an extremely confusing name for non-native English speakers. I'm from Spain and I think 90% of the time I see it written in Spain, it's written wrong (wassap, whasapp, wuatsapp, whatsap, watsap, wuassap, wuassapp, whatsup, watsup, etc.). Sometimes a phonetically "transliterated" version is used instead, like "guasap", which I find more tolerable because at least then it becomes a genuine Spanish word,…

As a pedantic native English speaker, the name "WhatsApp" has always irritated me somehow. It's just not nice. There's an apostrophe missing, it's two words with intermediate capitalization and no space, "App" in the name of an app is redundant, the "pun" is a bit dumb (does it even really qualify as a pun?)... But it's clearly worked out well for them, so I guess it's a good thing people like me weren't involved in…

Post by tripzilch » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

deckar01 wrote: post #281

> We’re obviously aware that Element is (once again) both a dictionary word and a mathematical term. and a ~30 year old, mainstream skateboard brand owned by the billion dollar, international Quiksilver company.

Post by sethammons » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

snarfy wrote: post #256

sethammons wrote: post #214

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Toshiba, Mercedes, IBM, Microsoft, ycombinator, and my humble employer is Twilio. That is 10 seconds of names off the top of my head. I guess Mercedes is often shortened to Benz.

Microsoft = MS IBM = Big Blue Ycombinator = YC Toshiba = Toshi off the top of my head ;) Not sure about Twilio, but upon first scan with my old eyes I wanted to read it as 'twillow'