needed some crack to go with the caffiene fix

[thedarksiren2]

c/o nomadoh and about a dozen others:

Re: thedarksiren:

My japanese name is 猿渡 Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) 蛍 Hotaru (firefly).
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Re: Dawn:

My japanese name is 山田 Yamada (mountain field) 歩 Ayumi (walk, deeper meaning: walk your own way).
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Definitely prefer the second one to the first, although the thought of the nature of a firefly - floating, glowing, mystical, rare to find in the city - is a bit desirable right now.

When I am not a tree, however, I am a butterfly.
Sometimes the two blend like coffee and cream,
Sometimes like vinegar and oil.
Today I think I may be a combination of them all.

and my throat hurts.
~8(

I swear, if I caught the plague from those choir-nimrods...:::grumbles expletives and disappears to do laundry:::

Comments

[ras-sinister.livejournal.com]

I like names like "Yamada" because I can actually read them with my all-but-nonexistent knowledge of kanji.

[thedarksiren.livejournal.com]

it is pretty, but I can't read Japanese characters at all. I honestly don't know what "kanji" means, but I am presuming it's the word for the characters(???)

Will we be charmed by your presence this evening, I hope?

[ras-sinister.livejournal.com]

There are three "alphabets" used in Japanese. Kanji are the complicated symbols which are mostly identical to the ones used in Chinese, and they are used to write the roots of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Hiragana are the squiggly but simple characters used to add suffixes (like conjugation of verbs), conjunctions, and other "particles." Katakana are the simple, straight-lined (some are slightly curved and most are kind of angular) characters reserved to write foreign words phonetically and sometimes for onomatopoeia. They're like writing in italics in English - katakana is also used to write brand names sometimes or in advertisements or anywhere the writer wants to draw the reader's attention.

I'm getting ready to head over as I write this, believe it or not. Multitasking!