I had an argument recently about how the name iNaturalist should be translated/transliterated to another language. Neither of us is a native English speaker. My opponent insists that the i stands for ‘I am a’ and so must be translated, which seems plainly wrong to me, from any perspective (grammar, …

[image] jasonhernandez74: I always thought it was in parallel with other things like iTunes, iPod, and iPhone. Although, these all refer to Apple products, so that opens another mystery. wasn’t iNat originally developed just for Iphone?

Also, naturalist is sometimes confused with naturist which is a type of nudist. So be careful with your terminology.

We have at least 2 among my iNatters. Back to that i Cape Town in Xhosa is iKapa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town which makes me feel at home in iNaturalist. (but that is <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ikapa+pronunciation&sca_esv=40a5306b60f26a7a&ei=BpOwZsB_n6iFsg-Dv6qJAQ&ved=0ahUKEwjAmpr7vN2HAxUfVEEAHYOfKhEQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=ikapa+pronunciation&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiE2lrYXBhIHByb251bmNpYXRpb24yBRAhGKABSJvbAVDxEFizsQFwAXgBkAEAmAHZAqAB-yyqAQYyLTMuMTW4AQPIAQD4AQGYAhGgAqEowgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigXCAhkQLhiABBiwAxhDGMcBGMgDGIoFGK8B2AEBwgIQEC4YgAQYQxjHARiKBRivAcICCxAuGIAEGMcBGK8BwgIKEAAYgAQYQxiKBcICBRAAGIAEwgIREC4YgAQYkQIYxwEYigUYrwHCAgYQABgWGB7CAggQABiABBiiBMICIBAuGIAEGJECGMcBGIoFGK8BGJcFGNwEGN4EGOAE2AECwgIHECEYoAEYCsICBxAAGIAEGA3CAggQABiiBBiJBZgDAIgGAZAGC7oGBAgBGAi6BgYIAhABGBSSBwgxLjAuMS4xNaAHzFs&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ba512033,vid:XvKgS3aTlhk,st:0">pronounced as a short i , so not ‘I, am a Naturalist’)

If that is all true, then what are pea-pods? O.O

iNat as i know it (2010) was a combination of websites with Flickr as import i thought. The iPhone was in 2017, 7 years later.

From the googles; Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, said that the “i” in iPhone stands for “internet, individual, instruct, inform, and inspire”. When he introduced the first iMac in 1998, he explained that the “i” originally stood for “internet” to indicate the product’s purpose …

[image] eyekosaeder: If that is all true, then what are pea-pods? O.O Easy ! A π-pod is an animal with 3,141592653589793… legs. :sunglasses:

[image] jnstuart: naturist is a type of nudist [image] DianaStuder: We have at least 2 among my iNatters! “Cape Town”, in the Xhosa language , is “iKapa” So if you had an iNatter from South Africa, and that person spoke Dutch, English, and Spanish, and they also enjoyed a bit of nudity…

The company iRobot – which makes among other things the Roomba robot vacuum cleaners like the one running around my house right now – was founded in 1990. (The name was presumably inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”.) That would seem to pre-date the Apple company products that use i in their prod…

[image] jnstuart: The company iRobot – which makes among other things the Roomba robot vacuum cleaners like the one running around my house right now – was founded in 1990. (The name was presumably inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”.) I, Robot is a collection of short stories by writer Is…

What does the i in iNaturalist stand for?

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twainwright August 11, 2024, 2:08am 32

Specifically, sometime shortly before March 5, 2011: https://groups.google.com/g/inaturalist/c/F52_5AYXt_s/m/CexcAVf3-jcJ

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What does the i in iNaturalist stand for?

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