What does the word "XenForo" really mean?

[kkm323]

Happy New year to everyone

I am just saying everyone is getting use to the name/word "XenForo" , but what does it really mean?


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[Edrondol]

Zen (Xen)
Forums (Foro)

Just a guess. I don't know this for certain but it's what I'd thought.

 

[kkm323]

Zen (Xen)
Forums (Foro)

Just a guess. I don't know this for certain but it's what I'd thought.

that's a smart guess

 

[AnthonyCea]

Just another name for another game, like Robert Plant named one of his albums 'Now and Zen' !!

 

[Paul B]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-did-you-come-up-with-the-name-xenforo.469/

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-meaning.101/

 

[AnthonyCea]

That's too hard Brogan, tell us in this thread what it means, no one wants to read though all that stuff.

 

[CTXMedia]

That's too hard Brogan, tell us in this thread what it means, no one wants to read though all that stuff.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-meaning.101/page-2#post-6887

Simples!! <squeak>

(the Brits will get the reference from a series of TV ads featuring Meerkats - for the Yanks an Aussies, here you go)

 

[kkm323]

foro means forum in Spanish
xen means alternating in Vietnamese

 

[AnthonyCea]

We can't wait for Brogan any longer so we will see what Google says about the matter.

After hitting about 15 pages they were still on about this company.

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/06/the_way_of_xen.html

 

[TNCclubman]

Relaxing forums?

With incense, candles and soft music...

 

[AnthonyCea]

Are you all sure we should not rename this gig to 'Now and Zen' ??

That or maybe 'Zen and Now' would be better !!

 

[Kier]

The closest definition would be 'unique/alternative forum'.

 

[Fred Sherman]

I have done a fair bit of research on this and know the answer definitively. I took time. I had to reseach the lexical use of the phrase as well as etymologies of different words and phrase, both Old English and and subsequent influences of the Germanic and French influences of the Saxons and Normans, respectively. And since the Normans weren't actually French, but Viking decendents who mixed with Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock, I also had to consider early Scandinavian and Latin tongues. Getting back to the point...

xenForo turns out to be modern English form of the middle English translation of an original Latin term, written backwards, which was:

IB can kiss my big, furry arse.​

It's true. You can't make this stuff up - not sober at least.​

 

[AnthonyCea]

The closest definition would be 'unique/alternative forum'.

Sort of like alternative drugs ?

No wonder this is a haven for old hippies !!

 

[Kier]

Sort of like alternative drugs ?

Um... I'm not actually sure what alternative drugs are, so I can't give you a competent response.

 

[AnthonyCea]

Google it man !!

Xenforo is like drinking coffee in the morning, or tea (alternative drugs = herbal high or remedy).

Xenforo cures what ails you !!

 

[Kier]

Google it man !!

Seriously, I'm using a 13" laptop here, using 9 'spaces', each of which is saturated with windows. If I open up anything else, my poor computer is going to throw in the towel!

 

[AnthonyCea]

But you still have the time to jive with us !!!

This subject brings me back to 'The Object' that Led Zeppelin used on their album 'Presence', for years and to this day people still wonder what the hell it means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVrsdVqprtk

So I guess leaving a bit of mystery is a great tactic because there are still things people are trying to figure out and think about 40 years later, I guess that is how myths are started.

 

[Fred Sherman]

Um... I'm not actually sure what alternative drugs are, so I can't give you a competent response.

Sure you do. You get a headache and you can take Tylenol, Alieve or Advil. You have alternatives to plain aspirin. I'm sure that's what he meant. Its how we used the term when I was in high school in the 70s. Really.

 

[Peggy]

Sure you do. You get a headache and you can take Tylenol, Alieve or Advil. You have alternatives to plain aspirin. I'm sure that's what he meant. Its how we used the term when I was in high school in the 70s. Really.

uh huh.....