A friend of mine asked me to think of some names for her website and the one, among a few others, I pushed for was QWERTYpie. Why not?
Yes, why not? For a change, let's look at why you shouldn't go with a name like QWERTYpie for a site about random musings, which is what most blogsites are anyway; except, of course, this rather serious, seminal and considered musing on the earth-shattering importance of names.
Well, after much hand-wringing and many mind-numbing jaunts into the myriad facets of namingnomics, I can't think of a single reason why not. Can you?
Meanwhile, if you'd like to read a polemically daunting analyses on the merits, and demerits (if any), of the Übername, please write to me with generous offers of money, real estate, stock options and TLC. We'll take it from there.
QWERTYpie
Stop-start scale: 7/10
Long and Short cut: 7/10
Story meme: 7/10
Urlabilty: 5/10
Übertotal: 26/40
Addendumb: Thanks to my naming counter Tate the Thingnamer, I was exposed to some of the other ways in which Qwertypie may not work quite as well as, say, QWERTYpie. And so, I've incorporated a few adjustments, which will make it a more workable naming solution. Back to you.
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You might want to take a look at pronunciation. You may need a visual indicator that the 'pie' is a new linguistic segment. The two descenders 'y' and 'p' right next to each other make the eye slide right across them - pulling the 'p' into the same syllable as the 'ty'. I personally read it as "Qwer - Type - ee" the first time... this could be handled by having the second word a different color or in a different font... Not a big deal, but worth considering.
That said... it is a blog. Anything goes!
Interesting observation. And that's why every name needs a good logo designer who understands how the eye moves. You'd make a fine logo designer too. Thanks for the feedback. Maybe the name should be written thus: QWERTYpie. What QWERTY written like that does is remind people of the QWERTY we all know of. And the pie written in lower case will be read as pie. Problem solved, probably.
Nice adjustment, Ubermaniam. And the fact that the QWERTY is written as it is presented on the keyboard really drives home the connection.
Thanks to you, Tate. Maybe we should start a company together! :-)
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