Bonzai3d Interview with The Daily CatchUp
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I don't see the name as any issue. It's pronounced like Bonsai - just with a typographical twist to follow their Z profiling.
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I don't see the name as being an issue as well. I think it only offends those going out of their way to be offended.
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There is Simmetry3D as well. "Misspelt" but this is frequent in software naming. So what?
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Mr myagi (sp?) gets drunk in karate kid and shouts bonzai a few times.. Can't be that offensive
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I think you Euro guys would feel different about a product being named "HeilHilter" or "Blitzkreig" ...
(The naming has nothing to do with how good the application is... it looks like a well made product. Add a good Ruby API and I may ditch Sketchup.)
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@dan rathbun said:
I think you Euro guys would feel different about a product being named "HeilHilter" or "Blitzkreig" ...
It's a play on "bonsai" - a very innocent word. That it's similar to "banzai" and comparing that to "HeilHilter" or "Blitzkreig" is stretching things too far.
And Godwin's law just got invoked...
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@dan rathbun said:
I think you Euro guys would feel different about a product being named "HeilHilter" or "Blitzkreig" ...
lol.. yeah, good analogy..
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In the UK you 'blitz' something... quite innocently... usually meaning to reduce to a 'pulp' [ignoring that it actually means 'lightning' as in blitzkrieg = lightning-war - but the London-Blitz did tend to 'obliterate' everything!].
'Banzai' is a 'US word' from the Japanese 'war-cry' - that is watered down in the UK to a weak and ineffective war-cry - one full of bravado but will few teeth...
'HeilHilter' is a different league - it's so specific that it's use in the UK is reserved to a particularly sarcastic response when given orders or direction by someone who you don't respect and who you consider to be 'getting above their station' - e.g. 'Do this!' ... 'HeilHilter!' = F*** you, I don't respect you!!
Only an eeedyet would name new products thus... 'Blitz' might make a good 'drain-cleaner' name - but as for the others ??? -
@johnsenior1973 said:
I don't see the name as being an issue as well. I think it only offends those going out of their way to be offended.
Quite.
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Guys,
Getting back to the subject matter and the 'surprise' mentioned at a bonzai3D interview here. While SketchUcation is primarily SketchUp oriented we feel there is room for other applications even if they are direct SU competitors to a degree.
I suppose the saying 'Horses to courses' comes to mind.
Mike
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@mike lucey said:
I suppose the saying 'Horses to courses' comes to mind.
I thought it was, "Whiskey for my friends, and beer for my horses."
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