RE: Change ur name
10-23-2014, 10:47 AM
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
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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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow