Bonzai3d Interview with The Daily CatchUp
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@unknownuser said:
(http://news.sketchucation.com/interview-bonzai3d/)":gnhkphe6]BonZ… led to bonzai which is a small, elegant, but strong little tree… Just like our 3D application. But enough said.
Not enough said.
bonsai and banzai are two diferent words, with completely different meanings.
bonsai [bon-sahy] means tray plant(ing)
banzai [bahn-dzah] means 10,000 years (of age); a patriotic shout basically "may Japan last 10,000 years."
There are many World War II veterans and their families that find the word offensive. Two of the most famous newreels from the war show, the crews of the Japanese carriers shouting "Banzai!" as their aircraft returned from striking Pearl Harbor; the other shows Japanese soldiers stting upon the captured guns of Corregidor, shouting "Banzai!" as their fellow soldiers marched US prisoners up the infamous death march thru the Bataan peninsula.
I find the choice of name for the application to be a very poor one.
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Good point Dan and fair comment.
@dan rathbun said:
@unknownuser said:
(http://news.sketchucation.com/interview-bonzai3d/)":15ik9skp]BonZ… led to bonzai which is a small, elegant, but strong little tree… Just like our 3D application. But enough said.
Not enough said.
bonsai and banzai are two diferent words, with completely different meanings.
bonsai [bon-sahy] means tray plant(ing)
banzai [bahn-dzah] means 10,000 years (of age); a patriotic shout basically "may Japan last 10,000 years."
There are many World War II veterans and their families that find the word offensive. Two of the most famous newreels from the war show, the crews of the Japanese carriers shouting "Banzai!" as their aircraft returned from striking Pearl Harbor; the other shows Japanese soldiers stting upon the captured guns of Corregidor, shouting "Banzai!" as their fellow soldiers marched US prisoners up the infamous death march thru the Bataan peninsula.
I find the choice of name for the application to be a very poor one.
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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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