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Peach Financier
motor ability
May 20, 2018 10:57
5 yrs ago
English term

Mental Gainer

Non-PRO English Science Internet, e-Commerce Brand naming
Dear native English speakers, I need your advice.
Mental Gainer is a phrase being considered as the name/title for a website/channel that is going to promote the popularization of science and cultivation of rational critical thinking. By analogy with sports gainers, the phrase should be perceived as something that improves/increases the desire for knowledge, something that boosts the brain. Does this phrase sound good to you, is it perceived correctly without any ambiguity in it?
Thank you very much.
Responses
4 Not a good choice
4 Ginástica mental

Discussion

airmailrpl May 21, 2018:
gainer A gainer is the acrobatic trick of performing a backwards somersault while still moving forward. In diving, this is known as reverse rotation (as opposed to front, back, or inward).
Gainer - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainer
Eugene Vdovin (asker) May 20, 2018:
Weight/Mass Gainers Weight gainers are high-calorie supplements promoted to help you pack on the muscle. They contain varying amounts of carbohydrates, protein and fat, plus vitamins, minerals, individual amino acids and other supplements such as creatine.
philgoddard May 20, 2018:
Same here Are you confusing gainer and winner? Though that sounds almost as odd.
This is brand-name consultancy, which should be done by paid native speakers.
jccantrell May 20, 2018:
Not to show my age ... ,, but what is a 'sports gainer?' It is not a term I have heard here in the USA.

Responses

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Not a good choice

One definition of gainer is a type of dive where you perform a complete forward rotation before hitting the water. By extension, it is also used for a stumble and fall where you perform a similar rotation (or something close to it). That was the definition I first thought of and I don't think you want to name your site/channel after a clumsy and possibly injurious fall.

I don't think the nutritional supplement connection is well known to people outside of sports, I had certainly never heard of it before today.

I would go with something more like Mental Boosters.

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Note added at 1 day 17 hrs (2018-05-22 04:36:44 GMT)
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As airmailrpl points out, it's a reverse rotation not a forward one. However, this doesn't affect my point.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks so much. I'll definitely choose another name."
1 day 23 hrs

Ginástica mental

mental gainer => mental gymnastics => Ginástica mental

The art of mental gymnastics | Daily Mail Online
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-85621/The-art-mental-gym...
The art of mental gymnastics. by JAMES CHAPMAN, Daily Mail. It sounds like a couch potato's dream. According to research, just thinking about exercise can

Ginástica mental - AGUILA - Click Books
https://www.clickbooks.com.br/product_info.php?products_id.....
Em qualquer idade nosso cérebro precisa de um pouco de "ginástica".
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Thank you very much
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