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I’ve been meaning to give the site a “proper” name other than just “Marijn’s site” — catch is, of course, my site is bilingual, and a name which sounds perfectly mellifluous in one language might sound clunky and forced in the other
satyrwoud 2 years ago

I would have gone with just “The Forest”, by analogy with “The Garden”, but that was taken about a thousand times over already

satyrwoud 2 years ago

I’d post all this meta natter on The Garden but i don’t want to fall into the trap of “blogging without blogging”, as it were (http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/12/on-not-writing/)

saint-images 2 years ago

"Marijn's site" is perfect, for you are Marijn and this site is indeed nobodys but yours.

satyrwoud 2 years ago

I’m just future-proofing here — i’ve already changed my name once before; who says i won’t do it again in the future? :-)

brennholz 2 years ago

This bilingual issue could be solved by not thinking of your site as a location like a "forest" or whatever. Instead, think of it as a living being, since those have names that don't have to be translated, like Gregory. Like instead of "Marijn's site", it'd be "Gregory", the site of Marijn. (This is a terrible idea)

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satyrwoud 2 years ago

If Tim Berners-Lee didn't want us to think of websites as places in cyberspace, he shouldn't have called them *sites*!

raelhbishop 2 years ago

Well, sites in real life change too, not unlike living beings. Times Square in New York City looks nothing like it did a hundred years ago, or a thousand or a million for that matter. Byzantium became Constantinople became Istanbul. That being said, I feel 'marijn's site' works best as its name - it's short, it's simple, it's all-encompassing.

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bdkcorrigan 2 years ago

Most of the books I've read in translation have a different title on the translated edition! You could have a different mellifluous title for each language!

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