English native speaker help

[Lidador]

I would be very grateful with some help from an English native speaker. I need to register an ascii domain for another of my ideas and could use some opinions about:

Does “CarsAuctions.com” sound very awkward?

I know CarAuctions.com is the ideal one, but doesn’t it really mean “Auctions” of “cars”, and so is the plural in “cars” really that bad? I am auctioning several cars, but the “car” in fact typifies about what the auctions are about, right?

Is it because it means “car’s auctions” = “the auctions of the car” (one car)?

What if I was to auction only yellow cars? Doesn’t “YellowCarAuctions” seems like I am auctioning only one Yellow Car or does it seems I have an auction house named Yellow Car? Does “YellowCarsAuctions” make a little more sense in this case or is “YellowCarAuctions” still the best one?

Finally, if you could, you would still prefer YellowCarAuction or the plural?! (for a site with car auctions)

Thanks a lot for any reply.

[Rubber Duck]

CarsAuctions is truely horrible.

[mulligan]

“YellowCarAuctions” ... In this case the plural 'Auctions' denotes that there will be more than one auction and that all auctions will be for yellow cars so there is no need to say 'cars' as the word 'auctions already lets the reader know there will be more than one auction

[Lidador]

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

CarsAuctions is truely horrible.

Why? What does it sound like to a native English?

[jacksonm]

Because unlike some other languages, we do not pluralize every word in a group of nouns or adjectives.


For example, in Finnish you would say:

Halvat Autot (Cheap Cars) (definite plural), Halpoja Autoja (Cheap Cars) (indefinite plural), Halpa Auto (Cheap Car) (singular)

But in Finnish, the plural looks like "Cheaps Cars", because "Halvat / Halpoja" is the plural of "Halpa". This is quite strange to deal with when you're a native English speaker. I understand the grammar, but it still seems stupid to me to pluralize adjectives. Germans do it, too - they not only pluralize adjectives, but adjectives and articles also change endings according to the case (nominativ, dativ, genativ, akkusativ). Thank god Finnish doesn't have articles, that would truly be a nightmare.


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