Michael Jackson
Dave Fossett
referred to as "Maikeru yougisha" on the Japanese TV rather than "Jakkuson
yougisha".
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Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
Drew Hamilton
>I wonder if there is any particular reason why Michael Jackson is generally
>referred to as "Maikeru yougisha" on the Japanese TV rather than "Jakkuson
>yougisha".
Somewhat unrelated, but why was Saddam Hussein known simply as
"Saddam" by the US president, media, and people during the Iraqi
war this spring? Could Bush not bring himself to say "Mr.
Hussein" when talking about him?
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- awh
http://www.awh.org/
Michael Cash
<re...@via.newsgroup> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>I wonder if there is any particular reason why Michael Jackson is generally
>referred to as "Maikeru yougisha" on the Japanese TV rather than "Jakkuson
>yougisha".
You didn't know that we gaigins only have first names?
Dave Fossett
> Somewhat unrelated, but why was Saddam Hussein known simply as
> "Saddam" by the US president, media, and people during the Iraqi
> war this spring? Could Bush not bring himself to say "Mr.
> Hussein" when talking about him?
Actually, Saddam is his family name, so it would be improper to refer to him
as just Hussein.
SR
>
Well, most Indonesians apply to this one.
"Michael" alone is not enough since I, never being a friend of this weirdo's
singing, would rather think of Michael Jordan. If we talk about Germany, it
would be Michael Schuhmacher.
Sigi
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Haluk Skywalker
yazdi:pfovrv85sep0el961...@4ax.com...
That's right. I tried so hard to make people call me Akasan (proper way)
instead of Harukusan but it didn't work. Tokyo people do call me Akasan
though. In Osaka, I'm Harukusan or Haruku
I used to think it was peculiar to my case because Aka has a few weird
maenings.
Marc
"Dave Fossett" <re...@via.newsgroup> wrote in message
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> I wonder if there is any particular reason why Michael Jackson is
generally
> referred to as "Maikeru yougisha" on the Japanese TV rather than "Jakkuson
> yougisha".
Oh that's easy. They don't want to confuse him with Jesse Jackson.
I have to say though, he looks awful. Kind of like the Joker in the Batman
movies. How does a cute kid like that turn into a pathetic clown as an
adult?
The 2-Belo
Heh. This is precisely the reason I switch my names around on all non-official
documents I fill out, and when I introduce myself to people. I don't *want*
total strangers calling me "Jeff-san". It gives me the willies.
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Ryan Ginstrom
"The 2-Belo" <the2...@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> Heh. This is precisely the reason I switch my names around on all
non-official
> documents I fill out, and when I introduce myself to people. I don't
*want*
> total strangers calling me "Jeff-san". It gives me the willies.
I prefere to be called by my first name in Japanese, because in Japanese my
last name has a whopping 5 syllables, and is pronounced incorrectly the
majority of the time. I've been called everything from ジーストロングさん to
シンドロムさん. So Ryan works fine, and the cool part is that it sounds like
a last name anyway.
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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
Louise Bremner
> >>I wonder if there is any particular reason why Michael Jackson is generally
> >>referred to as "Maikeru yougisha" on the Japanese TV rather than "Jakkuson
> >>yougisha".
> >
> >You didn't know that we gaigins only have first names?
>
> Heh. This is precisely the reason I switch my names around on all non-official
> documents I fill out, and when I introduce myself to people. I don't *want*
> total strangers calling me "Jeff-san". It gives me the willies.
It doesn't matter which order I write my names in--it's always
"ruizu-san". So I just put "L" (which leads to further fun and games,
but at least they are more amusing).
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The 2-Belo
Me, I'm just ボイド, which was lucky seeing as it's almost tailor-made for
Japanese speakers. I figure when I naturalize, I'll just drop the ボ and become
井戸さん!!!1!!11
Drew Hamilton
>Heh. This is precisely the reason I switch my names around on all non-official
>documents I fill out, and when I introduce myself to people. I don't *want*
>total strangers calling me "Jeff-san". It gives me the willies.
Japanese people tend to want to call me "Drew-san" or "Andrew-san"
when they first meet me, which is never pronounced even close to
properly. If they called me "Hamilton-san" they'd at least get it
pretty close to right.