Brett Robson <info@secret-web.com> wrote in message news:<cggs67$7vk$2@nnrp.gol.com>...
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> > Caspar Milquetoast wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Damn, got the eternal
> >> problem of trying to impress the hell out of a beautiful woman--this
> >> one happens to be Japanese. Her name is Asami. Can anyone help me out
> >> with a definition of this name? I know that it also depends on how its
> >> written in Kanji, but a general all-purpose definition for the name
> >> would help.
> > 
> > 
> > Jap names are just like ours, Cap. They don't mean shit. Make something 
> > up on the spot and she'll wow over your memorization of baby name books.
> > 
> 
> Complete bullshit, if that were true all given names would be 
> written in hiragana or katakana.

Do names written in hiragana or katakana have less meaning than those
in kanji?

I think what Kevin is trying to say is, although parents may have
spent a long time choosing a name, most people pay little attention to
its meaning. Many people would be unable to tell you the meaning
without asking their parents.

Mukade