Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Name Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:09:22 -0600 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <41E1D5C2.8030801@yahoo.com> References: <34bn5cF477okaU1@individual.net> <34buquF48p7qnU1@individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net E6uSjGp2AVLcwhoYrrhZBAlJMJkxZHTDAUB8y43FJ9yHHU/ln2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:24326 necoandjeff wrote: > windsor wrote: > >>> I don't know how bad your name is but I have a smilar issues with >>> シュレップ ファー. I've just always told people to call me by my first >> > name: > >>> ジェフ. >> >> Unfortunately my first name is ニック, But I suppose I'd rather be >> "Meat" than my mangled surname (which is even worse than yours). > > > Well nikku isn't meat. That little tsu makes all the difference in > the world. > I've always thought the name Don/Dawn would have it's drawbacks, mainly because of 'donkusai'. But I used to think my mother in law kept saying John Kusai every time she said jamakusai. John W.