Translator?

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:58 am

I need to find a translator. I want to have my wife and son's names translated to japanese. Then I'm gonna have it tattoo'd on my arm.

Any help appreciated.

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:13 am

Try this site:

http://japan-cc.com/

On page two, near the bottom of the page you'll find a name translator for having items done in Japan.

Hope this helps!

ps It's a cool site for other stuff!

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:24 am

I have a really good translater but this is one of the kind

So I cannot give it to you

Sorry I have no idea anything about translators

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:24 am

Really. Cool. I have a great botmaster.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:27 am

[quote="kittens"]I have a really good translater but this is one of the kind

So I cannot give it to you

[quote]

Why even tell me?

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:34 am

monkeyboy wrote:Try this site:

http://japan-cc.com/

On page two, near the bottom of the page you'll find a name translator for having items done in Japan.

Hope this helps!

ps It's a cool site for other stuff!

It helps a little. Per name that they translate for me I need to give them 5 e-mail addresses. So I need 10 e-mail addresses to get the job done. I really don't want to send 10 people junkmail. Baaaaad karma.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:40 am

I need 5 more e-mail addresses. Any volunteers?

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:47 am

Before I get bumped out of Beta again! >_<

Here is another site:

http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/

It will cost you $10.00each I think.

I had one that had lists of names for free but I lost the site when my old computer died!

I'll keep looking though.

Post by **sensei** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:04 pm

Make sure you get a second opinion on the characters before the tattooist starts working:

http://www.soufoaklin.com/tattooartist.html

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:22 pm

sensei wrote:Make sure you get a second opinion on the characters before the tattooist starts working:

http://www.soufoaklin.com/tattooartist.html

What an ass!! Being an american I think it would be nice for someone else in the world to appreciate my country and culture.

Taking advantage of somebody like that is immorally wrong. Working in the car business I have opportunities all day long to do that to people and charge them for it. "What it's not my fault all of the world drives a car and that lady didn't know the difference between an EGR valve and a planetary gear". Bad karma on him

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:23 pm

Were you born in the USA. Which state?

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:29 pm

Not Sir Phobos wrote:
kittens wrote:I have a really good translater but this is one of the kind So I cannot give it to you

Why even tell me?

Heeheehee to make you jelous

(ok a translator = me

)

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:36 pm

Fine, be that way then.

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:48 pm

Find out soon NSP so you can get inked.
Our government looks like they want English as the official language!

LOL

klet · Post by **klet** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:59 pm

What exactly are you looking for? Because there are three ways you can do this.

The most accepted way for foreigners to write their names in Japanese is to use katakana. Basically, it's one of the Japanese alphabets specifically for writing foreign words, and carries no additional meaning.

e.g. Marie=マリー

Another way you can do it is to look up the meaning of each name and find Japanese kanji with a similar meaning. Kanji are complicated characters that Westerners typically think of when they think of Asian writing.

Here's a baby name site that has name meanings:

http://www.babynamesworld.com/

If you go this route, the kanji will have readings no where near the sound of your wife and kid. Of course, the Japanese themselves have been known to assign readings to kanji that don't traditionally go with them. There's a place name (I think it's Kobe) for which the kanji mean heaven's door or something like that. But, neither one of the kanji used can be read ko or be. Also, there's Raito or Light from Death Note. His name is written 月. The normal pronounciations for that kanji are tsuki and getsu.

The third option (and most difficult) is to phonetically spell your wife and son's names in kanji. You would have to find kanji that can be pronounced the same way as your wife and son's names, and they would have to be kanji that wouldn't look stupid when put together. This is quite a bit of work even for a native speaker.

I'd be willing to help if you went for options one or two, but there's no way I'm confident enough to even consider option three.