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Originally Posted by JasonTakeshi
I don't quite see the reason for the "laughing". As well as i don't quite see the reason to question the racionality of the parents in relation to the names of the children.
I would laugh as much about someone called "Planet" as i would if he was called "Bubacar imbalo", an African name. Or "Peter", a Greek name.
Edit: Ain't "Akane" a Japanese name? Doesnt it mean "deep red"?
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It does not. Yes, there is another WORD that means deep red that sounds the same... But it`s not the name, is written differently, and is used with that meaning FAR less than the sound "Akane" is used for a name.
Names follow a set pattern. There are words/sound patterns that are accepted and commonly used as names. And then there are those which are not.
If someone had a name that
meant "heavenly body" somewhere, or at some point in it`s history but which was currently a name or accepted as one (such as Autumn, etc) that is fine.
Tentai does NOT follow that pattern. It`s not a name, and would never mean anything other that "Heavenly-Body" or "Astronomical" to anyone who heard it said.
It was asked whether Tentai is a Japanese first name. It is not, and would elicit the same reaction as a 100% American being named "Heavenly-Body" (Exactly that, not something that means that in another country or that had that meaning in the past, etc) in America.
I wouldn`t actually LAUGH at them, but I would judge whether they had been given the name by their parents (and feel a little bad for them) or whether they had changed their own name to that (and find it hard to take them seriously in most cases.)