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05-12-2008, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
Our family name is 矢部 - I`m sort of indifferent to it. It irritates the crap out of me to have to clarify how to say it when we`re out of Japan. Everyone tries to read it as one syllable with a long A. Argh.

I laughed out loud when I read that. So they read it to rhyme with 'babe', yeh?

I once had a deep Southerner read my full name in romaji, and man, he read all the 7 vowels wrong....and looong!
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