So, flipping through my LAS the other night, I came across some pictures I now need opinions on:
( Let's play 'Celebrity Lookalike!' )
( And now, for you TakiYuki and Setomaru lovers out there... )
Yesterday was a fun day--I went to work the Japan Club booth during International Week at A&M for a couple of hours. Also at the booth were Randy (the new club president, half Japanese half Venezuelan, speaks, like, 10 langauges), Keita, and Johnson-sensei. Johnson-sensei was doing calligraphy, and tried (tried XD) to teach me. Unfortunately I have little to no talent for that, but damn was it cool o___o
After a while, we got a little bored, and she asked me if I'd thought about kanji for my name yet. Truthfully, I hadn't thought about it at ALL. I always write my name with katakana, and it never really struck me to think up kanji for it. But that's what we spent the rest of my time there (and all of conversation table that night XD) doing~
Yutaka-san (very cool, but very male) dropped by to offer his "assistance" in suggesting names. His best came in the suggestion of "Write it 美人 ('bijin,' beautiful) and say it reads 'courtney' :DDDDD." I love Yutaka-san.
Of course he ruined it by helping us think of kanji for "Nii" to end my name with and suggested 兄 (the 'nii' in 'oniisan'--elder brother XD).
In the end, we couldn't decide on anything specific, so I'll put up some of the suggestions. My name should read phonetically "kou-to-nii"
琴新 (koto-nii, koto = the musical instrument, nii = "new")
Suggestions for "kou"
高 (high)
香 (scent, smell)
光 (light)
好 (love)
Suggestions for "to"
都 (large city)
斗 (a volumetric measure, usually used to measure amounts of sake XDDDD)
Suggestions for "ni/nii" (this is the hardest one :/)
新 (new)
弐 (2, used in legal documents and check writing :D)
丹 (red earth)
忍 (ok, technically, this is "nin," but I could specify it be read "ni"--and the meaning? 'endurance' by itself, BUT THIS IS THE NIN OF NINJA :OOOOO)
Johnson-sensei's ultimate suggestion: 光都忍, and yes, simply because of the ninja connotations XD Keita concurred :D
I'm wavering between using 光都忍 and 好都忍, though I do like 好都新 as well :DDDDD suggestions?
And now a poll:
[Poll #937127]
( Let's play 'Celebrity Lookalike!' )
( And now, for you TakiYuki and Setomaru lovers out there... )
Yesterday was a fun day--I went to work the Japan Club booth during International Week at A&M for a couple of hours. Also at the booth were Randy (the new club president, half Japanese half Venezuelan, speaks, like, 10 langauges), Keita, and Johnson-sensei. Johnson-sensei was doing calligraphy, and tried (tried XD) to teach me. Unfortunately I have little to no talent for that, but damn was it cool o___o
After a while, we got a little bored, and she asked me if I'd thought about kanji for my name yet. Truthfully, I hadn't thought about it at ALL. I always write my name with katakana, and it never really struck me to think up kanji for it. But that's what we spent the rest of my time there (and all of conversation table that night XD) doing~
Yutaka-san (very cool, but very male) dropped by to offer his "assistance" in suggesting names. His best came in the suggestion of "Write it 美人 ('bijin,' beautiful) and say it reads 'courtney' :DDDDD." I love Yutaka-san.
Of course he ruined it by helping us think of kanji for "Nii" to end my name with and suggested 兄 (the 'nii' in 'oniisan'--elder brother XD).
In the end, we couldn't decide on anything specific, so I'll put up some of the suggestions. My name should read phonetically "kou-to-nii"
琴新 (koto-nii, koto = the musical instrument, nii = "new")
Suggestions for "kou"
高 (high)
香 (scent, smell)
光 (light)
好 (love)
Suggestions for "to"
都 (large city)
斗 (a volumetric measure, usually used to measure amounts of sake XDDDD)
Suggestions for "ni/nii" (this is the hardest one :/)
新 (new)
弐 (2, used in legal documents and check writing :D)
丹 (red earth)
忍 (ok, technically, this is "nin," but I could specify it be read "ni"--and the meaning? 'endurance' by itself, BUT THIS IS THE NIN OF NINJA :OOOOO)
Johnson-sensei's ultimate suggestion: 光都忍, and yes, simply because of the ninja connotations XD Keita concurred :D
I'm wavering between using 光都忍 and 好都忍, though I do like 好都新 as well :DDDDD suggestions?
And now a poll:
[Poll #937127]
