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[Matt Joyce <matt.joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'Impossible' might be a good name... seeing as how impossible it is
becoming to find a word beginning with I in the region.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:04 PM, John Wong <gokoproject@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good point. A long time ago we used to call Beijing as Peking, but
> the journalists now will always pick up the pinyin version: Beijing. Since
> we are after I, we are pretty much down to either Ichang or Ili. Should
> either one be chosen, I think that we should document the pinyin version as
> well. The difference of Y and I is due to historical difference, which we
> are all familiar with. For example, there are more Wong than Wang, Chan
> than Chen in HK.
>
> John
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Yi Yang <yyos1999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> AS the official translation of the citiy names are Yichang and Yili, we
>> are facing a risk to pick up a Chinese city name that most Chinese won't
>> recognize.
>>
>> If we really have to choose a city, IMO, Yichang (ichang) would be a
>> better choice, as the Yili(ili) is more than 2300 miles away from Hong
>> Kong, while Yichang (ichang) is (only) 600 miles away.
>>
>> Just my $.02
>>
>> Yi
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/6/13 5:00 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>
>>> Jacob Godin wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 Ili
>>>>
>>> Thanks for all the suggestions ! We probably have enough place names so
>>> that we don't need to extend the naming rules to things that are not
>>> place names.
>>>
>>> So far, the only suggestion that fits in our strict naming rules is
>>> "Ili" (a city or county in the country/state where the design summit is
>>> held, single word of 10 characters or less). To have more than one
>>> option, we'll probably extend the rules to include other places (like
>>> street names) in Hong Kong itself.
>>>
>>> We'll go through name checks and set up a vote soon, I'll keep you
>>> posted.
>>>
>>>
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