I’m toying with the idea of starting a personal communication service that would pair (using a website/iphone app) lost tourists with student translators who would help anglophones with sticky situations (banking, getting stuff repaired, dealing with the phone/cable/electrical company) here in France. Basically a combination translation & personal concierge service.
I’m just at the business plan stage of the game right now but I’m struggling to think of a catchy name. Perhaps an english/french or english/english portmanteau or just something clever.
This might be too nerdy for the average lost tourist to make the connection, but I’m thinking something like “My Cyrano”, “Cyrano For Hire”, or “SuperCyrano”, in reference to Cyrano de Bergerac, as in Edmond Rostand’s play, where Cyrano provides his inarticulate friend Christian with the words to woo Roxanne.
Indeed that would probably go over too many ppl’s heads and hence be slightly harder for them to remember, but on the other hand, that is indeed very clever, thanks!
Favorites thus far are Hello Again’s suggestion of playing off M’aidez/Mayday and cormac262’s suggestion of using ‘Merci/Mercy’
i’m really quite enjoying this thread, I hope some of you are too!
