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12-03-2009, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
You know MMM, I am thinking that the reluctance to accept that a name may just be a name in Japanese is because kanji have meanings. And we both know how strange beliefs can be about the deep "mystical" meanings of those.
I have a Chinese Character-based name, like 96% of South Koreans do, and I always think my name doesn't suit me at all when it comes to the literal translation of my name. Go figure.


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