Get a room, she says!

[gurdymonkey]

didjiman  was not, in fact, talking dirty to me, la_peregrina.

This represents the stroke order for the characters that comprise my Japanese name. Well, most of it. I got the distinct impression that the COH is going to turn me down over the use of "Hanae" instead of "Hana," and I will not disturb my harmony fighting with barbarians over one dumbass letter of a name that nobody addresses me by ANYWAY. 

Last Labor Day didjiman  calligraphed my name along the right border of this (the large character is "Ai" or "Love." so the only kanji missing would be the one on the bottom.



It is my hope to one day be able to write my name properly.

Comments

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

1. My "virtual calligraphy sifu" is from Hong Kong. That may make a difference. Besides, I don't want to attempt this anywhere NEAR my computer, particularly once I graduate from pencil to brush and ink.

2. I don't like how Haname sounds though.

3. They're not going to register Cyrillic or Arabic or kanji. We're all furriners to them.

[cryptocosm.livejournal.com]

As regards point 3, those of us who deal in the registration of names need to be able to read everything we register. I can puzzle out Greek and most of Cyrillic; I was starting to pick up the modern Korean characters when I lived there, but I've lost those since. Hebrew, Arabic, and the Oriental languages are just too much - and if we permitted one, in fairness we'd probably have to admit them all.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I can't read 'em either, my friend and I'd be willing to bet that lion's share of minority personae can't read or write in their persona's languages anyway. It would be nice if we had specialists in these languages for heraldry purposes, but it's just not realistic.

As an aside you might find interesting, the book I recently finished reading compared a number of texts describing the same series of events, including whether third hand Portuguese phonetic renderings of Japanese names (or Japanese renderings of Portuguese names) had any bearing on who might have actually been present, Nautaquim/Naotoki, for example.