Company name feedback

[pixelgeek]

I am in the process of building a French company for IHMN that will be tasked with exploring new technologies for the Republic. These are some of the names I have been toying with and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or feedback on which would sound the best for the period

Société à Explorer les Technologies Inconnues
Compagnie à Explorer les Technologies Inconnues

Société pour l'exploration des technologies inconnues
Compagnie pour l'exploration des technologies inconnues

Société pour l'exploration et l'extraction des technologies inconnues
Compagnie pour l'exploration et l'extraction des technologies inconnues

I like the latter as it sounds long enough to be Victorian :-)

Also can any French speakers comment on the difference between Société and Compagnie in this type of usage?

TIA

[Thommo13]

Sorry I'm not French but I think that the last one would be more appropriate and you could always shorten it down

Thanks

Thommo

[pacofeanor]

the differnece between société and compagnie is the legal definition of the shareolders .

very nice name full of possibilities!

best regards
paco

[Sterling Moose]

I'm told it's not a proper wargaming name unless the initials make up a demeaning or stupid word that reinforces the world view that we're all geeks, nerds and generally 'strange' people.

Examples could be rulesets such as INEPTT (really!) and any game that has dumb sounding place names (usually referring to body parts or catch phrases from other languages).

Your options are far too sensible   

[oabee]

Having wrestled with similar concerns naming two German Companies (associated with the Society of Thule), I hope our French-speaking colleagues will weigh in on this discussion.

Online dictionaries only get you close to the proper language, I have found: they fail to provide precise meanings and nuance. Then there is also the issue of what was common usage in 1895 compared to the shape of the language today.

The posting for my second Company, Schutztruppe, is below, and most of the 46 posts relate to the language question!

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=62977.0

For example, for my first German Company, Die Forschungsgruppe, I was advised by a helpful German language expert to drop the article "Die," so the Company is now simply Forschungsgruppe (Research team).

[religon]

I'm building a similar French company based in Cairo. I am using the real world Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale as the name. I like the name and like the tie-in with Egyptology.

[pixelgeek]

Institut has a nice ring to it

Institut pour l'exploration et l'extraction des technologies inconnues

Sounds more like a cover group for a set of duplicitous government agents trying to nick someone's tech

[abdul666lw]

'Extraction' is a little surprising? Can mean extraction (dentistry or distillation); mining / quarrying; retrieval; (social) origin; exfiltration...
Exploitation, maybe? Or do you mean it as 'discovery' in the sense of 'unearthing', but it is then somehow redundant with 'exploration', unless you restrict 'exploration' to the progressive unveiling of the previously discovered technologies?  Then it would be 'Institut pour la recherche et l'exploitation....': first you search for new (to our civilization? to humankind?) technologies, then once discovered you 'exploit' (analyze then apply) them?

[pixelgeek]

I want it to mean the removal of items from their original location. So the group finds items and then steals them

[Mr. Peabody]

Use 'exploitation'.

Alors, 'Société de l'exploitation des technologies inconnues' devient SETI

If you like Compagnie better it becomes CETI, sounds the same but looks different.

Institut, gives you IETI. Everyone likes a 'yeti'...

[Donpimpom]

IMHO Societe sounds more victorian than company (XX capitalism) or institut (too science), also the longer the better for victorian names, twice longer if french.
What about:
"Societe pour l'Exploration, Recuperation et Encyclopédisation spécialisée des technologies inconnues"
?