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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: iamasmith on February 19, 2005, 06:35:26 am
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Hi,
Anyone got any idea behind the naming of the Zaurus?, Does it actually mean anything? if it doesn't then it's probably a mix of names that marketing put together.
So does anyone know for sure?
- Andy
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According to the Japanese wikipedia article http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaurus (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaurus) it's just a modification of 'saurus', ostensibly when some executive at Sharp liked the idea of strength that the association with dinosaurs conveyed.
Strikes me as an odd thing to name a PDA, since most people associate dinosaurs with incredible size, but there you go.
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yeah, incredible size and extinction...
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They'd been smoking a lot of herb.
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Gosh, so the rather dodgy JPEG that appears on the FAQ stuff was closer to the truth than I imaged.... I'm shocked. LOL.
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Good heavens! He's trying to faq her, I'd never noticed! That's perverse ;-)
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:-) ... and I am laughing and rolling on the floor here
Oh God..., what a connotation to the name Zaurus :-)
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I don't know who acquired this incriminating shot of Mr Veloco R Aptor here, but I'm sure it's out of context....
we really have to suggest that he's lookiing over the girls shoulder because I'm sure that's what he would claim and it could be the source of a little 'heat' otherwise.....
I favour changing this pic on the FAQs to something a little less ambiguous.
+ Actually I think the 'saur' part of Dinosaur in latin means Lizard. Any latin buffs who can confirm?
(BTW: My original guess about the naming was 'The Zaurus' <- 'The Saurus' <- 'Thesaurus'. There doesn't seem to be any firm evidence to support that though.)
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I don't know who acquired this incriminating shot of Mr Veloco R Aptor here, but I'm sure it's out of context....
we really have to suggest that he's lookiing over the girls shoulder because I'm sure that's what he would claim and it could be the source of a little 'heat' otherwise.....
I favour changing this pic on the FAQs to something a little less ambiguous.
Don't know about this. I think it is hilarious...
+ Actually I think the 'saur' part of Dinosaur in latin means Lizard. Any latin buffs who can confirm?
Yep, it means horrible lizard.
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Actually the picture could indicate the kind of 'geek addiction' that many of us suffer.... instead of a 'Monkey on your back'.....
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Actually I think the 'saur' part of Dinosaur in latin means Lizard. Any latin buffs who can confirm?
Yep, it means horrible lizard.
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And for completeness' sake, it' greek and not latin
Best regards,
Chris.
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Gosh, so the rather dodgy JPEG that appears on the FAQ stuff was closer to the truth than I imaged.... I'm shocked. LOL.
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That add was for the early M models of the zaurs, that didn't have linux as an OS but some proprietory OS that Sharp built or bought.
That was quite a populr add in Japan when it first came out (around 96 if memory serves), it was on TV all the time and that pic or slight variations of it were plastered all over the trains.
Can't seem to find any large size copies around on the net any more
Stu
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Yep, it means horrible lizard.
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Terrible, not horrible, silly
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Yep, it means horrible lizard.
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Terrible, not horrible, silly
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Saurus is a Latin word (by definition, it uses latin characters). According to the Oxford Latin Dictionary, saurus means a fish, in particular the horse-mackerel.
What you may be looking for is "saura" (\sigma\alpha\upsilon\rho\alpha), which is a Latinized Greek word meaning a type of lizard or salamander. Neither terrible nor horrible is implied in the original word.
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Don't call me off topic, you're off topic, this whole court's off topic.
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Excellent, yes I think people might be getting mixed up with the commonly known Tyrannosaurus - Which does, I believe, mean "Terrible Lizard".
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I always assumed it was meant to allude to thesaurus, to imply a source of information.
I now stand corrected!
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http://bedoper.com/reptilian/archive9.htm (http://bedoper.com/reptilian/archive9.htm)
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Here is was dictionary.com says:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dinosaur (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dinosaur)
New Latin Dnosauria, group name, from Dnosaurus, former genus name : Greek deinos, monstrous + Greek sauros, lizard.
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http://bedoper.com/reptilian/archive9.htm (http://bedoper.com/reptilian/archive9.htm)
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Well I guess now I understand the pitch..... er no actually I don't. - Unless these were limited edition novelty power packs for the original Z
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http://bedoper.com/reptilian/archive9.htm (http://bedoper.com/reptilian/archive9.htm)
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Wow...
Freaky, so the Zaurus is a device which allows you to be humped by a frisky T-Rex as part of a Freemason, Illuminati, Satanic nazi conspiracy?
Glad I got a Yopy
I need to go to bed