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harrymac
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contrex
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| Whoever posted that query on Wordlab can't spell "refurbishment" so why should they be entrusted with helping to find a name? And what was wrong with the old name? The place is a community centre in and for St Werburghs - thus St Werburghs Community Centre is a fine name, familiar to people all over Bristol. Once the self important prats change it to ComCent@Werbs or some dickhead thing like that, we will have lost, not gained, something. |
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Des
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Location: Montpelier, Gateway to Sneyd Park
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| Agreed. Is it the actual people at the centre who want to change it? I hope the people of St Werburghs will fight any change of name. This is an absolutely rubbish idea. |
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contrex
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What did I tell you? Some awful suggestions on that Wordlab page, including "CommuniTree Centre (CTC)" (yuk!) What is about CamelCase that drives people to use it? I think they think it looks "snappy" and "dynamic" or something.
| Quote: | | Since the 1980s, following the popularization of computer technology, it has become fashionable in marketing for names of products and companies |
"CamelCase" (or "camel case") is when you include capital letters in words somewhere other than the beginning. It is quite common practice in America where I believe it makes it easier to protect a brand name because although you can't arbitrarily take over a common word or phrase, you can get protection for a typographical style or a phrase run together to form a word. Lots of Americans think that the train from London to Paris is called "EuroStar" for example. Another use is in writing computer program code where it is said to aid readability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase
Anyhow, I hate it!
I have joined that Wordlab forum, and posted a link to this thread, which I hope won't set the cat amongst the pigeons!  |
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harrymac
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OK - let's be positive and see if we can't come up with better suggestions ourselves. Here are mine:
(keep)St Werburghs community centre
It's accurate, familiar, people know where it is, it won't get confused with community centres in St Pauls and Easton
Baptist Mills centre
the old name of this area, it was also the name of the area across the M32 so links across the great divide
Ashley Vale centre
again, local name and Ashley also refers to St Agnes and St Pauls |
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Goska Ong
Joined: 22 Jan 2009
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Location: Narroway Hill
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| Posted: Tue 26 Jan 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: New name |
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Hi
Thanks for your suggestions and interest. I'm not sure who posted the query on wordlab but it definitely wasn't what we were looking for. We did ask students from UWE for suggestions so maybe they were testing it. We also did try to get the community to come up with suggestions (in our Junction newsletter which went through all doors in St Werburghs last year) but had no replies.
Generally the idea has been coming up on our agenda over years and it is because many of our users come not only from St Werburghs but also from Easton and St Pauls and all East Bristol areas. Therefore we wanted to empathise this in the name but at the same time we didn't want to change the name completely.
We have collected suggestions at our open AGM in December 09 and the new name has been agreed at the last Management Committee meeting in January. It hasn't change wildly:
St Werburghs Centre
A Community Venue for East Bristol
Now we are consulting community on new website which we are working on. Please spare a few minutes and complete our on-line survey:
http://www.surveypirate.com/Survey.aspx?surveyid=10948&hash=cHFhCtvQpOEH5CtrqlqisA%3d%3d
Regards
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Des
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| Posted: Wed 27 Jan 2010 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Well done - sounds good! Sense has prevailed |
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