Re: Help With Japanese Name-Translations?

Steg wrote:

>I know there are usually some Japanese-speakers around here, would
>any of them be able to help me with something?
>This past summer i took two semesters worth of Japanese.  In class,
>we learned how to transliterate our names into Katakana.  But, i'd
>like to know if it's possible for me to translate my names without
>it sounding weird to a Japanese-speaker.
They all look pretty strange to me. You got tumors, scars, teeth,
lizards, bahts, scars, various types of fish or insects, mugwort, and
other fairly inauspicious stuff running about. Plus, nothing in the
surname that looks like a place name. I suppose, the character for
"sugar cane" *could* work (don't know how it's read in Japanese), but
I don't know if it's a valid surname component (though I somewhat
doubt it). Back to the drawing board....

Kou