MoYu is kinda weird

[HCross]

Cubing brands are strange. They make their cubes sound like they're gonna fly to space. I went on Google translate and found out Weilong directly translates to "Power Dragon".
Yiheng Wang can't get enough of his Super Power Dragons, can he.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Cubing brands are strange. They make their cubes sound like they're gonna fly to space. I went on Google translate and found out Weilong directly translates to "Power Dragon".
Yiheng Wang can't get enough of his Super Power Dragons, can he.

It's probably from the difficulty of translating from Mandarin or other Asian languages to English or similar languages

 

[qwr]

What's wrong with power dragon? Can you come up with a better name? GAN names it after iphones

 

[Keyhole God]

I'm Chinese ethnicity, so I'll explain this
Chinese uses tones, and when translating to English, they get removed.
for example, the long in WeiLong can translate to dragon, deaf, an onomatopoeia for loud noises, or for when a business is popular (roughly.) which, MoYu probably intended for it to be dragon, but there are multiple meanings because of tones, so using Google translate for translating toneless Chinese pinyin into English can be unreliable (pinyin is using the english alphabet to roughly transcribe the phonetics of Chinese characters with letters)
(sorry if this was kind of confusing, i'm not completely fluent in Chinese since I was born in the US)

 

[Exmestify]

What's wrong with power dragon? Can you come up with a better name? GAN names it after iphones

Ahh iphones, another weird product
them iphones-makers don't know how to count. straight from 8 to 10?? what happened to 9? maybe thats why they've got a half-eaten apple in their logo...
but apples are better. atleast they dont release 5 versions of the same thing at different price points "for the elite", like moyu.
ok ima stop

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

I'm Chinese ethnicity, so I'll explain this
Chinese uses tones, and when translating to English, they get removed.
for example, the long in WeiLong can translate to dragon, deaf, an onomatopoeia for loud noises, or for when a business is popular (roughly.) which, MoYu probably intended for it to be dragon, but there are multiple meanings because of tones, so using Google translate for translating toneless Chinese pinyin into English can be unreliable (pinyin is using the english alphabet to roughly transcribe the phonetics of Chinese characters with letters)
(sorry if this was kind of confusing, i'm not completely fluent in Chinese since I was born in the US)

I remember once I had removed tones in East Asian languages once being being compared to me like English but with only one vowel.

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

straight from 8 to 10?? what happened to 9?

The story seemed to be they used the design of the proposed 9 for the SE.

 

[qwr]

Ahh iphones, another weird product
them iphones-makers don't know how to count. straight from 8 to 10?? what happened to 9? maybe thats why they've got a half-eaten apple in their logo...
but apples are better. atleast they dont release 5 versions of the same thing at different price points "for the elite", like moyu.
ok ima stop

Microsoft: 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.1 95 98 ME 2000 XP Vista 7 8 8.1 10 11

And they keep somehow getting worse from 7 onwards

 

[HCross]

I wish google translate could actually translate tones. Instead us non-Chinese speakers have to just guess or ask someone Chinese.

 

[qwr]

I wish google translate could actually translate tones. Instead us non-Chinese speakers have to just guess or ask someone Chinese.

The Romanization is inherently ambiguous. There is no confusion if you use the written Chinese words.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/skctlk/moyuyj_cube_names_and_their_meanings

I would add individual wiki pages for each cube and templates, but the wiki admins don't seem interested in improving the editing experience.

 

[CaptainK]

I think it would be best if manufacturers picked official English translations for all their cubes, like the X-Man Tornado, Ambition, Rainbow, Shadow, and Spark. There might be multiple meanings that get lost in translation, but I think it's clearer to have one official name. Like when Shengshou started using the Sengso brand, it just caused confusion. Alphanumeric names like RS3 M V5 are fine I guess. But we're really missing out on all the bird-themed fun with DaYan cube names like ZhanChi, TengYun, and GuHong.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

all cube companies are weird imo

 

[HCross]

Yeah especially when they name a twisting dodecagon puzzle (Megaminx) an "Imperial Tiger".

 

[abunickabhi]

Cubing brands are strange. They make their cubes sound like they're gonna fly to space. I went on Google translate and found out Weilong directly translates to "Power Dragon".
Yiheng Wang can't get enough of his Super Power Dragons, can he.

Chinese language is beautiful

Google translate is weird yo

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

The YouTube channel @Summer-w9j does have some cool content, but the titles are so funny sometimes due to poor translation

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

The YouTube channel @Summer-w9j does have some cool content, but the titles are so funny sometimes due to poor translation

what in the speedsolving.com is a “brother child against heaven”????? bruv it’s just a kid solving a colorful plastic toy in 3 seconds

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

what in the speedsolving.com is a “brother child against heaven”????? bruv it’s just a kid solving a colorful plastic toy in 3 seconds

My theory is that it's a (of course poorly translated) wording of "little kid is god"??

 

[Fred]

My theory is that it's a (of course poorly translated) wording of "little kid is god"??

I would guess the against heaven part is 革命 meaning revolutionary, but originally meaning to withdraw the Mandate of Heaven (and transition to a new dynasty). So Wang Yiheng is a revolutionary boy.

Also third-order just refers to 3x3.