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If you're looking to improve the design of the site, you might be interested to know that the Chinese character for big is 大, pronounced "da4" (fourth or fallin

If you're looking to improve the design of the site, you might be interested to know that the Chinese character for big is 大, pronounced "da4" (fourth or falling tone). The character is simple enough it should be easy to work into any site logo, and the meaning works well with your URL ("Big Button Factory"). Mandarin is also cool.

palsecam 18y ago
Oh thank you, so interesting!
ahoyhere 18y ago
> Mandarin is also cool It'd be even cooler if you skipped adding it to the site, and just tattooed it on your lower back.
tel 18y ago
It's definitely cool and nearly the first thing I noticed as well, but it'll confuse exactly everyone besides those with experience in both english and chinese.
- sqs 18y ago
  True. Although I hope someday Mandarin will become second nature to lots of Americans, in the same way that Spanish "grande," "hola," etc., can be mixed with English to effect a certain attitude. Let's start with 厉害. Easy to pronounce and sounds like its meaning (at least to me).
  - pwk 18y ago
    我的汉语不太好, I needed to look up 厉害: http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%8E%89%E5%AE%B3/1309342 http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%8E%89%E5%AE%B3/130... Pretty neat site, along with looking up characters by typing or cutting and pasting you can draw them and it tries to guess what character you're looking for. What prompted you to start with 厉害?
- patio11 18y ago
  I'm looking at it thinking "Dai Button Factory? Did you typo your own domain name?" (Its not like single Chinese characters in isolation say "Note to English speakers who read Asian languages: this is Chinese, not Japanese or Korean. Please don't break our pun by trying to read it in one of those other languages. Thanks!") Edited to add: If you wanted a Japanese name for the site it would probably be ビッグボタンファクトリー, pronounced Biggu Botan Fakutorii. It means... well, OK, guess you can probably figure that out.

palsecam 18y ago

Oh thank you, so interesting!

ahoyhere 18y ago

> Mandarin is also cool It'd be even cooler if you skipped adding it to the site, and just tattooed it on your lower back.

tel 18y ago

It's definitely cool and nearly the first thing I noticed as well, but it'll confuse exactly everyone besides those with experience in both english and chinese.

sqs 18y ago
True. Although I hope someday Mandarin will become second nature to lots of Americans, in the same way that Spanish "grande," "hola," etc., can be mixed with English to effect a certain attitude. Let's start with 厉害. Easy to pronounce and sounds like its meaning (at least to me).
- pwk 18y ago
  我的汉语不太好, I needed to look up 厉害: http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%8E%89%E5%AE%B3/1309342 http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%8E%89%E5%AE%B3/130... Pretty neat site, along with looking up characters by typing or cutting and pasting you can draw them and it tries to guess what character you're looking for. What prompted you to start with 厉害?
patio11 18y ago
I'm looking at it thinking "Dai Button Factory? Did you typo your own domain name?" (Its not like single Chinese characters in isolation say "Note to English speakers who read Asian languages: this is Chinese, not Japanese or Korean. Please don't break our pun by trying to read it in one of those other languages. Thanks!") Edited to add: If you wanted a Japanese name for the site it would probably be ビッグボタンファクトリー, pronounced Biggu Botan Fakutorii. It means... well, OK, guess you can probably figure that out.