Yup, that bored.

Just got a nifty app, Google Translator...I'm having way too much fun.

Mine in Japanese is Kurisu, or as my g/f says, Kurisu-San!

Anyone?

Yeah, in Japanese you're supposed to put "san" after your name.

I already know mine though, I was there for 2 years lol

I know mine in Arabic is ريان ولي

And Japanese 瑞安冠

And backwards иAYЯ

But I'd love to know more!

What's mine?

Whats mine!?

But I'd love to know more!

Your name in Japanese, well...said in English:

Raian-San.

What's mine?

Jimī-San.

Whats mine!?

Maikeru-San.

Thanks Kurisu-san!

Does this make us all 20% cooler now?

Does this make us all 20% cooler now?

Darn! I was hoping for 30%

Thanks Kurisu-san!

Does this make us all 20% cooler now?

20%, and 60% at any I-CON event. Fangirls will flock to you.

makes us 20% ricer.

Fangirls will flock to you.

FYI everyone else. This is a bad thing.

makes us 20% ricer.

FYI everyone else. This is a bad thing.

I noes teh hawt ones.

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20%, and 60% at any I-CON event. Fangirls will flock to you.

Now I'm lost...

Now I'm lost...

>Google I-CON

They're big conventions.

Joe

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Chinese: 乔

Japanese: ジョー

Greek: Τζο

French: de Joe

Dutch: van Joe

Hindi: जो

German: von Joe

Irish: seosamh

Armenian: Հաղորդագրություն

Bulgarian: Джо

Danish: af Joe

Russian: Джо

French: de Joe

Spanish: José

Italian: giulia or cesare or Giuseppe

http://translate.google.com/#en|it|

Hai, Jō-san.

Josie!!! Whoops I mean José

Pig Latin

Joe: Oejay

Joseph: Osephjay

http://users.snowcrest.net/donnelly/piglatin.html

If you wanted your names in Japanese, you could just ask the resident speaker of the language

I can write them in Japanese for you too, of course. However, to be fair, our names in Japanese are just spelled out phonetically using the Japanese syllables.

I'm セイディー　(Saidei, say-ee-deh-ee) but since the second ee (i is said ee) is small, it's said very quickly. The line means you hold the sound.

The hardest part of translating our American names into Japanese phonetics is that we have weird sounds that the Japanese don't use, or really fathom using. Thus, some translations are kind of cracked out.

For instance, take the name Ashley. When trying to spell it out phonetically in Japanese, one questions as to whether it should be Ash-a-ri or Ash-o-ri. To me, both sound basically like Ashley, but Ash-a-ri is the closest. Then you have to figure out how to write that out in katakana, the Japanese writing system for words that aren't indigenous. Eventually you end up with アシャリー. It's also hard for me to figure out when you need the ー for holding a sound. Coffee is cohi, spelled コーヒー or コーヒ depending on who you talk to. I guess it ultimately is understandable to someone who is Japanese, but I still wish I could always get it right

PS, sorry Chris, I wasn't trying to rain on your parade! I think it's cool they made an app for that. They're making an app for everything. Maybe it would help me translate English words into Japanese better, haha!

No worries, Sadie. Get the Google Translator app! It really is useful.