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Originally Posted by MMM
Thanks for your help.
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In all seriousness, I suspect the guy is making a comic book but wants some "mystical Asian names."
I've had some recent experiences with artists/authors who needed to verify some Japanese because they have a character ending up in Japan as part of the plot and wanted to use dialogue to show how fish-out-of-water the character was. So I'm now more patient with people who need that type of translation.
But "I want to give my character a fake, quasi- not-actually-Japanese name that uses Japanese sounds but English vocabulary for some mystical quality that only Americans obsessed with an artificial image of Japan will enjoy"?
I don't get that.
However, OP can convince me otherwise and put me in my place. I'll apologize if there is a good reason for wanting to name your character サイト. Hell, if a Japanese-speaking person even sees サイト or "Saito," they're going to assume it means "site," right?
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