When Fiona first came to understand that certain letters strung together in a particular order spelled certain words, she would randomly ask, “What does K-K-D-A-E-B-D-G-E-G spell?” She was disappointed that the random combination of letters rarely made recognizable words. So, I suggested that we try to make it easier and do only three letter words, where the second letter was A. With this, she often came up with words and was quite happy.

This came to mind to day when I visited Zental Floss. Laura has a game where you substitute letter from your name to a combination of letters for making a ‘Japanese name’. Using that, I came up with ‘Katatemoto’ was my ‘Japanese name’.

I thought of sending this off to my eldest daughter who is fairly advanced in her Japanese to ask her if that meant anything. It reminded me of my Fiona’s favorite game. It also reminded me of another popular game online where you figure out your stripper name. I guess you could combine them to come up with a Geisha Girl name. So, instead of just sending it off as an email, I thought it might be a fun little blog post. I’ll send this along to my eldest daughter, if only to get a virtual roll of the eyes.

What is your ‘Japanese name’?