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    Thinking up a name for a typing program.

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    26-Apr-2014 14:34:18#1 Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    Having trouble thinking up a name for a touch typing project like Amphetype without it sounding too corny. Many programs out there take a racy adjective and put it before or after 'type' eg.

    Accutype
    Fasttype
    Turbotype
    Nitrotype
    Typemaster

    Putting 'Amphe' into google translate it apparently means 'home' in Latin but you have to go from Latin to English since 'home' in English comes out as 'domum' in Latin. I like the name Amphetype because it's unassuming. The only other reference I can find is 'amphetamine'.

    So is it a matter of putting a Latin or Greek prefix in front of 'type'? I Like Acutype, Acutus means quick in Latin, Acu means needle and also looks a bit like accurate.

    I want the program to be a simplified version of Amphetype. Drag and drop a book to import it with options to convert all the non-Ascii characters and maybe record typing speed and accuracy.

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    27-Apr-2014 15:21:29#2 Re: Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    SimpleType, TypeAway, QuickType, TouchTyper, TypeTeacher, TypePractice,  TractoType, SomeType, TypeRope, KeyShifter, YATTT (yet another touch type tutor) etc.

    Are you writing one?  Or should it be called PieSkyTyper?

    I never liked the name Amphetype, because I can never spell it.  I assumed the name was derived from Amphetamine.

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    28-Apr-2014 11:03:05#3 Re: Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    Interesting question. I had never thought of amphetamine in connection with the name Amphetype, but I have a better relationship with latin than most it seems.

    Since it's obvious that people don't get latin references, they can be tricky even if I think they're cool. If you want something connected with speed, there's 'vitype', 'celertype', 'volotype' (cool one; from 'flying' and gives associations to 'velotype'), 'propertype' and, well, 'fasttype' (although going by strict latin it should be 'festtype' which doesn't work). ;)

    If you want a focus on typing books, you could use a name that gives that association? Like 'readtype', 'literatype' (good one – 'litera' means 'letter' and has a bunch of good associations!), 'tapreader', 'textkeyer'...?

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    28-Apr-2014 14:29:31#4 Re: Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    I guess Amphetype comes not from Latin, but from Greek: amphí which means "on both sides" (it's the same root as: ambidextrous; so 'Amphetype' to me sounds something like 'type with both hands')

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    28-Apr-2014 23:02:20#5 Re: Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    Thanks for the suggestions, it's called Acutype for now, I like literatype though another unassuming one.

    pinkyache said:

    Are you writing one?  Or should it be called PieSkyTyper?

    I'm doing it as we speak but for now it will be very basic with a similar interface to Amphetype without all the graphs and stats. I'm just trying to get my head around some technical stuff.

    Could this possibly be moved to User Contributions? I posted in the wrong forum.

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    29-Apr-2014 08:34:26#6 Re: Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    Never mind the forum placement for now. When you have a product to show, you'll of course make a Contribution topic! :)

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    13-May-2014 11:57:41#7 Re: Thinking up a name for a typing program.

    I noticed that Accutype is Lenovo's name for their chiclet keyboards.   Not sure if that matters to you or not.

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