It's not super intuitive to English speakers. But having learned mandarin during college it makes more sense from that perspective. In Chinese pinyin, phonetically, i, makes more or less only two sounds, the short i as in: ingress, it, shift, hit. So in Chinese its: ping, ting, shi. Or it can be a long i that's more common in Spanish where it sounds like "ee" a long e. In Chinese that's used in: yi, di, ni. So I can see how they arrived at strimer being like streamer, assuming they're familiar with pinyin.
Kind of reminds me of "Liqtech" or "liqfusion" by Enermax. Awkward name but a decent product so people don't really care. We'll see how this turns out.
It’s a bad name in any case because when I see “Strimer”, I think “strimmer”, i.e. a “weed-whacker”, a lawn-care tool that uses a nylon filament (“string”) to trim foliage.
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drexnx - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - link
It'll always be the stri-mer to me, no way I can read that as "streamer"Honestly, given some of the other bizarre names tech has generated, I can take Strimer at face value
(i.e. strix, aorus, SUPER LUCE, ROG, etc.)
versesuvius - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - link
Maybe the industry is moving toward 1 nm chips faster than it should?Ej24 - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - link
It's not super intuitive to English speakers. But having learned mandarin during college it makes more sense from that perspective. In Chinese pinyin, phonetically, i, makes more or less only two sounds, the short i as in: ingress, it, shift, hit. So in Chinese its: ping, ting, shi. Or it can be a long i that's more common in Spanish where it sounds like "ee" a long e. In Chinese that's used in: yi, di, ni. So I can see how they arrived at strimer being like streamer, assuming they're familiar with pinyin.Kind of reminds me of "Liqtech" or "liqfusion" by Enermax. Awkward name but a decent product so people don't really care. We'll see how this turns out.
londedoganet - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - link
It’s a bad name in any case because when I see “Strimer”, I think “strimmer”, i.e. a “weed-whacker”, a lawn-care tool that uses a nylon filament (“string”) to trim foliage.stephenbrooks - Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - link
I pronounce it as in "More reliable than a garden strimmer"