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[joeq]

the most annoying names are the ones created by market research wonks with their focus groups.    I am told this is because no executive in the company wants to risk his reputation naming a product that tanks so they farm it out to consultants.

this results in annoying names that don't mean anything but somehow give you the impression that something about them is "good" .  Automobile names and drug names are the worst offenders

Impreza
Linspire
Levitra
Prius
Accutane
Accord

I'm drawing blanks here but you know there are hundreds

-Joe Quesada

[punkest]

Yeah, I go all for names that describe the products that also helps you remember it, just thinking about its characteristics.  Take the Vipre, which stands for Variable Impedance Mic Preamp, the only problem is that the name sounds awful, fortunately the only thing that sounds cacophonic of this pre is it's name

[dwoz]

My favorite is how Telson named their speech processor (TSF-0401) the "dialectocon"


That's some cool voodoo...

dwoz

excuse me, that should read "dialecticon".  Sorry, sprained my right hand yesterday...been thick-finering everything...

[Crash]

As I read these I realized that I can remember numbers in audio gear names but can't with street addresses. While I lived in Seattle, a city that is all about numbered streets and avenues as opposed to street names, I was constantly driving around in a daze. Where else on the the planet could you live at the corner of 124th and 124th?! I need names like Broadway, Pan Am Expressway and the like. You start saying things like 1272 or 1073 and I know you are talking Neve pres, 737-Avalon, 1960-Drawmer, etc., man am I sick or what?! ....but I digress.

Crash
(Scott)