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| I've got a few LEGO characters in need of interesting names, so I decided to try browsing through a Japanese-English dictionary called JEDI[1] looking for ideas. It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately, since I don't speak Japanese, I'm not certain (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) Among these, Hiryuu (Flying Dragon) and Arashi (Storm) can sound like names for warriors or wrestlers. They sound pretty good. Most of the others are simply words which would be pretty unlikely as names (e.g. Nukiuchi, Tomogui & Gaidoku), but (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) OK, cool, great, thanks! And given the meaning of Tomogui, I can't imagine that for a human warrior's name either...heh heh. But the name actually fits this particulary character I have, assuming that it's not too strange to give a name that's (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) There's basically no difference between Zenkai and ZENKAI to us. We may not recognize some of the words you listed above as Japanese (e.g. Hankai, Sokkazan & daikatsu) without seeing them written in Chinese characters and hearing them in a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) OK, great! (...) Oh, hmm. Well, the meaning I wanted for Zenkai was "complete destruction." Is that more of an obscure meaning for the word? BTW, do you happen to know of any really excellent super-great Japanese-English dictionaries on the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) I really like Hiryuu. I first encountered it in RPGe's Fan Translation of Final Fantasy V. ;) They did an excellent job of translating it, too. (...) That is one of the few words not in my dictionary. What does it mean? (...) So, are you (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) I don't use japanese-english dictionaries very much, so I don't know. (...) Since 'chokugeki' simply means "direct hit" without any references to directionalities, the warrior with that name could be the one who either gives or receives the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| You could also try Chinese, lots Chinese people have names with cool meanings (like Jackie Chan's real name, Chéng Lóng, which means "to become a dragon"). -- Paul Davidson Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) Here they are, straight from the J.E.D.I. dictionary... [futeki] (an) daring/fearless/intr...bold/tough [futeki] inadequacy/inappropr...mpropriety [futekikaku] disqualification/unfitness [futekisetsu] (an) unsuitable/inappropr...e/improper (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) According to JEDI[1], 'tomogui' means "cannibalism (in animals) / mutual destruction / internecine struggle / eating each other / damaging each other." (...) Hmm, not sure exactly how to classify them. Sorta mech, but sorta beast. If you'd (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) Oh, for this meaning, we would rather use the three words that follow in the list. You see, dictionaries do not list the frequencies of the uses, so some of the words you see in dictionaries are not even used very much. So, if you name your (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) Aha! OK! (...) I like it! BTW, does the softer sound of "mu" (as opposed to more plosive phonemes like ka or ga or zu) subtly imply that such a name might be somewhat insidious? -- that is, such that an attacker might not learn Muteki's true (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) That's an interesting observation. I never thought the sound "mu" could make the words sound less powerful or strong. In the word "muteki", "mu" represents "void" or "nothingness", and it's a strong word/morpheme. But if this word sounds (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) Chokugeki, (...) Dear Mr.Lehman I want to be excused from putting in a word,because I'm usually interested in a fictitious proper noun. There is little case that usual nouns are independently used for proper noun in Japanese.("hiryuu" (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) I love the name Muteki! It's perfect -- Doumoarigatou!!! --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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| (...) Well, I've used "Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary Server" ((URL) with much success. It can give you either romanji or kanji translations, and does partial word searches. It has those little notations (an and vs for example), as well as (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.jp)
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