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¶YouTube Playlists

• My UNOFFICIAL playlist: CharaChorder / Forge Update (UNOFFICIAL Playlist)
• CharaChorder’s official paylist: FORGE Development

¶Notes

• I regard the video ChorderCon 2023 as #0 update since it’s the debut of Forge Keyboard.
• No video on Day 81, 82 and Week 41. (or I can’t find them.)
• Videos on Day 18, 76, 78, 84 and 85 don’t exist on YouTube, but you can still watch them at these links outside YouTube.
  • Day 18: Day #18 - Raw angel pitch, as promised 🪽
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
  • Day 76: Day #76 - 776 Fellowship Application
    • LinkedIn
  • Day 78: Day 78 - Live stream reaction to customer testimonies for Kickstarter!
    • LinkedIn
    • TikTok
  • Day 84: Day 84 - Sneak peak of some test renderings of the M4G PCB by the amazing
    • Instagram
  • Day 85: Day 85 - 3 Questions to tell if CharaChorder is for you
    • Instagram
• Though anything like “This is week xx of CharaChorder / Forge update …” is not mentioned in the following official launch videos, it seems to me that they are important updates about Master Forge and CharaChorder Two. So I include them in the playlist.
  • Master Forge: Official Launch Trailer
  • The Master Forge: Official Kickstarter Video
  • CharaChorder Two - Official Launch Video

¶Sources

• CharaChorder’s YouTube channel
• CharaChorder CEO’s YouTube channel
• CharaChorder’s FaceBook
• CharaChorder’s Instagram
• CharaChorder CEO’s LinkedIn
• CharaChorder CEO’s TikTok
• CharaChorder’s X

¶Disclaimer

All videos are collected from the sources listed above. NONE of my accounts, my channel, my playlist is affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with CharaChorder. The official CharaChorder and Forge Keyboard website can be found at https://www.charachorder.com/ and https://forgekeyboard.com/.

¶Video List

¶Preface

In my place, if a product that doesn’t have an official or general Chinese name, we often use the original name no matter what language it is in, so I may still call CharaChorder One, CharaChorder Two and Master Forge when I introduce the devices to others. But I think it would be interesting to give them a Chinese name on my own.

So in this article, I would explain both the English and Chinese names that I give to the product and my device.

¶CharaChorder One and CharaChorder Two

For the translation to “CharaChorder”, I choose 「流弦」.

「流」 means fuild or flow, so it can be linked to the “Fuild Chord/Character Entry” feature of CharaChorder’s devices, and it can mean that the thought is flowing inside this device. (Yes, type at the speed of thought!) The translation to the Flow State, 「心流」, also have this word.

「弦」 is taken from the translation to the “chord”, 「和弦」, since the chording feature plays an important part in CharaChorder’s devices.

For “One” and “Two”, I choose the financial form of them, 「壹」 and 「貳」.

As a result, “CharaChorder One” and “CharaChorder Two” is translated to「流弦・壹」and「流弦・貳」by me. The dot between them is an interpunct in Chinese.

¶Name of my CharaChorder One

My CC1 is named as “Estrea”, which means the most shining star in the sky. This is also what I compare CC1 to. Estrea is also a word that appears in my favorite anime.

Its Chinese name is 「初星」. 「初」 means the start or the first. 「星」 means the star or the planet.

To me, this is the first special keyboard I’ve ever bought. It’s like I were landing on a special planet for the first time. There are some alien technologies for typing and chording on that planet.

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¶Name of my CharaChorder Two

Though at the writing time, I haven’t received my CC2, it is named as “Formula”. It’s yet another a word that appears in my favorite anime. I choose this name is because using 3D input devices to typing for me now is a standard way, like an proved scientific rule expressed in a formula.

Its Chinese name is 「方程」, which is a direct translation of “Formula”.

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¶Master Forge

For Master Forge, I translate it to 「匠鍛」. 「匠」 can mean master, craftsman, artisan or workman. 「鍛」 can mean forge, temper or refine. Yes, it’s a direct translation and already a powerful name in Chinese.

¶Name of my Master Forge

Though at the writing time, I haven’t received my M4G, its name has been decided to be “Exelion”. Same as “Estrea”, it’s also a word that appears in my favorite anime. And it is also the name of a heavily-armed near-lightspeed craft in another anime. Continue the imagination above, I imagine that I were driving this powerful spaceship, Exelion, developed by the aliens on that planet, having a space trip to unknown spaces of digital world. The one side of M4G also look like a spaceship.

It’s Chinese name is 「翔空」. It means flying in the sky. I think it’s a good match with the name “Exelion”.

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¶Bonus 1: Elvish Language (Font) for the Names

(P.S. Written date of this section: 2024/11/06)
The “Elvish Language”(精靈文) font is really popular now in my country. It makes Bopomofo symbols look like an Elvish language. You can try it at this website.

And here are the names above in “Elvish Language”.

流弦·壹 初星：

流弦·貳 方程：

匠鍛 翔空：

¶Bonus 2: The Slogan

By the way, I would translate the slogan of CharaChorder, “Type at the speed of thought”, to “隨想即打”. It’s literal meaning is “Type as you think”.

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