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15424574 No.15424574[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

how do japanese feel about their names? names that are literally common words like yuki, hajime, saki, etc.
for westerners its like naming someone "tree" or "snow". don't they find it weird to be named after common words that you hear everyday?

>> No.15424634

>>15424574
A lot of western names are taken from latin or hebrew and they usually have a meaning as well. And although most of us don't speak either of those languages I still feel like it's not that much of a difference from Japanese.

>> No.15424677

I wonder how the majority of western people feel about having the same last name after the color of shit.

>> No.15424724

It's not like our names don't have meanings, it's just that they're in mostly dead languages.

>> No.15424961

Are you actually allowed to give your child a Japanese name if you're in Europe or America? I mean, I have a hebrew name according to my mother but could you just go and tell them that I want my daughter to be named Reimu?

>> No.15424969

>>15424961
Theres no naming restrictions in the US, but there have been cases of courts stepping in and saying "no" and not issuing birth certificates if you try to name your kid Shitballs McGee or something incredibly dumb.

>> No.15424970

>>15424961
Why would you name your nonexistent daughter after that bitch?

>> No.15424971

>>15424961
Your parents will reveal themselves as massive weaboos but there's nothing strictly saying you can't name a non-Japanese child a Japanese name. (I've never seen it myself.)

>> No.15424982

>>15424969
>>15424971
Actually now that I think about it, wasn't there this one /jp/sie that named his daughter after a 2hu, maybe? Or was that just my imagination. I swear it's real.

>> No.15425181
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>>15424574
I think some parents choose these names because the kanjis are cool.

>> No.15425185

>>15424982
>>/jp/thread/5415581

>> No.15425199

>>15424634
Western names usually don't derive from common words but are rather adjectives like winner, rich, kind, etc. or from social roles like priest, prince, and so on, or from the name of a god

>> No.15425204

>>15425185
Glad I'm not going insane just yet.

>> No.15425207

>>15425181
That's true, according to my Japanese professor

>> No.15425269

>>15425185
I'm just amazes someone on /jp/ put their dick in an actual vagina.

>> No.15425292

>>15424982
>>15425185
>>15425204
>>15425269
For fucks sake this is photoshopped.
I knew I should have saved the proof because I didn't think people would keep spouting this same dumb shit for years.

>> No.15425328
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>>15425292
Here ya go.

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