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Help[Opinions] Rosetta Stone
in reply to a message by abbasdaughter
It sounds too much like the program you use to help you learn a language.
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Agree
But I was thinking of the actual stone and not the language software.
But I was thinking of the actual stone and not the language software.
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Funny enough.....
That's what I always think of, too. But when I first heard it I kept thinking 'wow, that would make such a pretty name.' I still love it today.
That's what I always think of, too. But when I first heard it I kept thinking 'wow, that would make such a pretty name.' I still love it today.
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A friend of mine adopted an African child named Rosetta... Don't think her original parents umpteen years ago were thinking of the computer program).
Amazing how society will take an otherwise ok name and cause unnecessary associations with things that may not appeal so much, eh.
Amazing how society will take an otherwise ok name and cause unnecessary associations with things that may not appeal so much, eh.
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I'd also like to point out....
Almost no one seems to remember that there was another Rosetta Stone long before the computer program: a large granite stone, discovered in the early 19th century with Greek text, Demotic text, and Egyptian hieroglyphics. This was all the same text written in different forms, and therefore, because people already understood Greek, it became our main tool in understanding hieroglyphics. See why they picked the name for a language software?
Almost no one seems to remember that there was another Rosetta Stone long before the computer program: a large granite stone, discovered in the early 19th century with Greek text, Demotic text, and Egyptian hieroglyphics. This was all the same text written in different forms, and therefore, because people already understood Greek, it became our main tool in understanding hieroglyphics. See why they picked the name for a language software?
This message was edited 9/19/2011, 8:11 PM
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Yep... I'd heard of the stone before, but still... Sometimes company and product names twist our images of a particular name that would otherwise be treated as normal.
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Like what happened with Allegra. I still love it but most have too strong association of it as an allergy medicine
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Yeah
It was my first thought too. I'm not too fond of it as a name.
It was my first thought too. I'm not too fond of it as a name.
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My first thought too.
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