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Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, January 12, 2001, 23:32
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I (first person masculine) am Douglas Koller
Doesn't there have to be a _desu_ at the end? Or is there a reason it's not required there? Is it because _boku_ is an informal pronoun?
> -chan is a diminutive suffix used after truncated names, mostly by young girls > to name their female friends and their sempai (boyfriend).
Hmmm ... so I could be "Nikkuchan"? I like it! :-)
> By the way, my name would be kurisutofu guranshiru in katakana (if that's not > distorting then I don't know what it is :) ).
For some reason, Taylor is _Tiiraa_, with _te_ and "little _i_". Don't know why, but Sensei said that that was how Elizabeth Taylor's name was katakana-ized. "Nik" was just _Nikku_, same number of kana as the English has letters. :-) In Spanish, I was _Nico_, thus the nickname "Nico Suave". :-) Would the full Nicholas be _Nikarasu_? -- ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42