Help with transcribing names

[tipsygypsy]

Shpil-sher　朱飛流紗亞

[tomutomu]

Originally Posted by tipsygypsy

Ke-ren 可憐　　　　　　　　
Shpil-sher　　　　蹴蒜奢亜
Mo-rag 猛羅愚
Tze-pe-le-witz 絶蔽流美地
Coo-per　　　　　　　空波亜

炉酢戸美胃布　= Roast Beef! LOLZ! Your kanji translations are fun ^_^

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by tipsygypsy

Ke-ren 可憐　　　　　　　　
Shpil-sher　　　　蹴蒜奢亜
Mo-rag 猛羅愚
Tze-pe-le-witz 絶蔽流美地
Coo-per　　　　　　　空波亜

Now that is the way to scare someone away from using Japanese!

[DrMike]

Whoa...
I think I might use both options

Thank you very much for you help.

BTW, is there a significant difference between the two version of Shpil-sher offered to me?

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by DrMike

Whoa...
I think I might use both options

Thank you very much for you help.

BTW, is there a significant difference between the two version of Shpil-sher offered to me?

Yeah. The one you likely dislike for looking "plain" and "not exotic enough" is more "correct." The one with all the complex characters looks really Chinese but isn't Chinese. It would be if I wrote the dog name "Fido" as "Phydeaux." Same sound, different writing, and both are "correct" spellings of a sound but only one is considered "correct" by 90% of the population.

No offense to tipsygypsy of course! I only put "correct" in quotation marks because I don't like calling anything correct when dealing with language since "correct" is only "what most people say is correct."

Neither has any meaning, though. They both are phonetic. The complicated looking ones ostensibly have meaning, but it's like gibberish meaning. Well, except for "Karen," which does mean "pitiful" there.

[DrMike]

I see, and is there also a difference between the two Kanji alternatives for Shpil-sher?

[MMM]

Originally Posted by DrMike

I see, and is there also a difference between the two Kanji alternatives for Shpil-sher?

Take Tipsygypsy's translations with a shaker of salt.
This is your correct answer:

http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...tml#post853159

[tipsygypsy]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

Yeah. The one you likely dislike for looking "plain" and "not exotic enough" is more "correct." The one with all the complex characters looks really Chinese but isn't Chinese. It would be if I wrote the dog name "Fido" as "Phydeaux." Same sound, different writing, and both are "correct" spellings of a sound but only one is considered "correct" by 90% of the population.

No offense to tipsygypsy of course! I only put "correct" in quotation marks because I don't like calling anything correct when dealing with language since "correct" is only "what most people say is correct."

Neither has any meaning, though. They both are phonetic. The complicated looking ones ostensibly have meaning, but it's like gibberish meaning. Well, except for "Karen," which does mean "pitiful" there.

I know you never meant to offend me. and I don't think karen means pitiful. 可憐( karen ) is a word to describe the beauty of moment which holds a bit of sadness within. Just like a flower blown in the wind. Petals are blown away, but that moment is beautiful, and that moment also is sad. I consider that kind of beautiful and fragile moment 可憐　( karen )

[masaegu]

@tipsygypsy

Are you always going to write foreign names in kanji if people ask how their names are written in Japanese?

If so, I will never post in this type of thread again because it will make me look like a fool.

[tipsygypsy]

Originally Posted by masaegu

@tipsygypsy

Are you always going to write foreign names in kanji if people ask how their names are written in Japanese?

Yes I am. There are some names I can't write in kanji tho.

If so, I will never post in this type of thread again because it will make me look like a fool.

we all know you are never fool. or at least I know you are not fool by reading the things you have posted.