Re: foreign name in katakana -> kanji


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Ben K. Bullock <benkasminbullock@xxxxxxxxx> dixit:

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Marc Adler <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:

It's time to quote Steve Turnbull's knaji name experience.
See http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/banned.html

I don't know why anyone wants to confuse the situation still further by
giving themselves a completely bogus kanji name and then whining when it
isn't accepted.

Well, in Steve Turnbull's case it was a colleague who encouraged him to
get one. I wouldn't call Steve's "a completely bogus kanji name" - I know
naturalized Japanese citizens who've been ordered to get kanjified names.
Jack Halpern has bee signing himself 春遍雀來 for years.

Why does that make Turnbull's name not bogus? It clearly says that Turnbull's kanji name is not his alien card name or naturalized Japanese name on the page above. Anyway, to get a stamp made up costs maybe 500 yen per character if Mr Turnbull heads to Asse or Seibu, or less if he uses one of the internet based seal shops. He could probably earn that much money in less time than it took him to put up the web page. It is not worth making a fuss about.

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