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RE: Change ur name
Not a chance! I was named after a friend of my dad's from his university days. It's not a particularly unusual name in Maori or Pasifika languages; though it is pretty exclusively a name for dudes. Pair it with my surname and you get this suitably awkward mix of West European mongrel and Oceaniac consonant-syllable-consonant-syllable antics.

The one conceivable change would be dropping my dad's surname and adopting my mum's (basically "Pinewell" in Japanese.) if I decided to settle here permanently. At which point I could choose official kanji for my first name as well. I keep reminding myself I need to check the rules for this, but if im allowed to say "it's written like 'bird' but pronounced like Manu", I am totally doing that.

One weird thing I just realised about my name is that, on the whole, Japanese folks pronounce it better than Westerners, who often get the stresses wrong :v


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Change ur name - by Plaid - 10-23-2014, 10:07 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Jacquerel - 10-23-2014, 10:11 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Schazer - 10-23-2014, 10:47 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 10-23-2014, 11:01 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Dalmationer - 10-23-2014, 10:54 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Dalmationer - 10-23-2014, 11:17 AM
RE: Change ur name - by yd12k - 10-23-2014, 12:39 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Solaris - 10-23-2014, 01:49 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Dalmationer - 10-23-2014, 01:59 PM
RE: Change ur name - by goblin's - 10-23-2014, 02:37 PM
RE: Change ur name - by piester - 10-23-2014, 05:18 PM
RE: Change ur name - by ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 10-23-2014, 05:18 PM
RE: Change ur name - by goblin's - 10-23-2014, 05:30 PM
RE: Change ur name - by SeaWyrm - 10-23-2014, 06:48 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Kitet - 10-23-2014, 07:09 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 10-24-2014, 02:28 AM
RE: Change ur name - by goblin's - 10-23-2014, 07:16 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Kitet - 10-24-2014, 03:16 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Sai - 10-24-2014, 12:40 AM
RE: Change ur name - by ICan'tGiveCredit - 10-24-2014, 12:44 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Not The Author - 10-24-2014, 01:34 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 10-24-2014, 02:47 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 10-24-2014, 02:57 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 10-24-2014, 03:04 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 10-24-2014, 04:13 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Coldblooded - 10-24-2014, 04:54 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 10-24-2014, 05:46 AM
RE: Change ur name - by ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 10-24-2014, 05:39 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Schazer - 10-24-2014, 06:43 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Coldblooded - 10-24-2014, 07:05 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Solaris - 10-24-2014, 08:12 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Lieutenant Fish - 10-26-2014, 08:20 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Loather - 10-27-2014, 01:15 AM
RE: Change ur name - by ICan'tGiveCredit - 10-27-2014, 01:36 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Loather - 10-27-2014, 02:53 AM
RE: Change ur name - by SeaWyrm - 10-27-2014, 03:39 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Loather - 10-27-2014, 11:12 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 10-27-2014, 05:40 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Loather - 12-07-2014, 11:59 PM
RE: Change ur name - by SeaWyrm - 12-08-2014, 07:58 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Schazer - 12-08-2014, 08:06 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Reyweld - 08-31-2015, 02:53 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 08-31-2015, 05:25 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Dalmationer - 09-02-2015, 03:10 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 09-02-2015, 06:15 PM
RE: Change ur name - by ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 09-03-2015, 12:28 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 09-03-2015, 12:36 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 09-03-2015, 03:19 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 09-03-2015, 04:03 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Infrared - 09-03-2015, 10:24 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Ren - 09-10-2015, 11:26 AM
RE: Change ur name - by Solaris - 09-11-2015, 02:17 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Plaid - 10-08-2015, 05:12 AM
RE: Change ur name - by AgentBlue - 10-09-2015, 03:59 AM
RE: Change ur name - by chimericgenderbeast - 10-09-2015, 05:23 AM
RE: Change ur name - by OrangeAipom - 10-15-2015, 10:11 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Romythered - 10-18-2015, 03:13 AM
RE: Change ur name - by ICan'tGiveCredit - 10-18-2015, 10:46 PM
RE: Change ur name - by Romythered - 10-19-2015, 01:04 AM
RE: Change ur name - by ICan'tGiveCredit - 10-19-2015, 01:37 AM