What's your Japanese name?

starshadow · Unread post by **starshadow** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:46 pm

I think the whole translation is a fake. So lemme guess...your name is Michael am I right?

Unread post by **Nurann** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:35 pm

starshadow wrote:I think the whole translation is a fake. So lemme guess...your name is Michael am I right?

... I hate to break this to you Starshadow, but you ask any native Japanese person and they would tell you that foreigner names cannot be translated into Japanese, nor should you try. The closest (and most culturally appropriate) thing you can do is write it out in Katagana. Mine is "Kerushi," which has no kanji associated with it.

starshadow · Unread post by **starshadow** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:39 pm

Well...I used a japanese/english online dictionary and i tried typing in "Maikeru" since I got nothing to do and the results is "Michael".

Here's the Japanese/English dictionary :

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

Unread post by **Nurann** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:41 pm

Yeah, 'cuz that's what the katagana translation would be. But it's still not a proper Japanese name, like, with kanji and special meaning.

Sorry.

NaitoKage · Unread post by **NaitoKage** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:50 am

Yep, correct. Ofcourse theres no Kanji for it, well.. there is for the Arch Angel Michael, but for a person's name no. Thats why when people move to japan they usually have to change their name.

Also interesting is looking up your name's meaning. Here's mine in Wiki.

Michael is a given name that comes from the Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל‎ (Mikha'el), meaning "Who is like God?"[1] In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, or, especially in Ireland, Mick.

Michael is one of the Archangels.

Though my parents didn't know any of that.. my mother just selected them from her favorite bodybuilders and jumbled them around into a long name that wont even fit any computer databases.

Kamikaze · Unread post by **Kamikaze** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:57 pm

Somewhat of a necro, but this thread made me retch a little.

SkyxDB · Unread post by **SkyxDB** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:25 pm

Why? We were playing with a name generator for fun.

Kamikaze · Unread post by **Kamikaze** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:27 pm

I know. Still made me retch.

Unread post by **Sapphire** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:26 pm

Kamikaze, unless you have something decent to add to this thread, don't post. Especially something provocative (not to mention unexplained) like that. :/

Kamikaze · Unread post by **Kamikaze** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:14 pm

D'aw, h'okay. I had my fun.

starshadow · Unread post by **starshadow** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:26 pm

Actually, I'm a really dense girl so I wouldn't know what retch means

Don't explain it to me, I'm afraid I'll be pissed.
Sometimes being an idiot is good.

NaitoKage · Unread post by **NaitoKage** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:54 pm

Retch is another word for puke. Essentially Kamikaze is being a passive aggressive.

Unread post by **Nurann** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:09 pm

I have had a really bad week, and I am not in the mood to babysit a thread gone bad.

One more off-topic post, *especially* one of a negative nature, and I'm locking this sucker. Capiche? (Don't respond, just please get back to the topic or let this thread die.)