Chinese Characters for names

[boris]

Hi, just something that annoyed me today.

I noticed somebody has a username of 漂流の技術者. I can't read that and have no way of pronouncing it. I thought toymods was an australian based club?

Cheers, Jake.

[ace]

I agree, it could be confusing but that might be how they spell their name etc...and want it to be displayed

[wokstr_ae86]

it means
漂流
piao1 liu2
の技術
ji4 shu4
者
zhe3

google is a wonderful thing............
and im german..........................

[ace]

it means
漂流
piao1 liu2
の技術
ji4 shu4
者
zhe3

haha were you joking with that?
it made me laugh, cos im pretty sure your definition DID NOT help any of the english speaking forum users.....

[wokstr_ae86]

haha were you joking with that?
it made me laugh, cos im pretty sure your definition DID NOT help any of the english speaking forum users.....

kinda, but not really.
its his name i think!!!!!!!!
that was the exact traslation i got!

[oldcorollas]

actually guys, it's japanese.. and it means

Technician of drifting
or drift engineer

hyouryuu no gijyutsujya or similar???

[RONA]

Hehe and since he is into drifting and his previous name on the old forums Drift technician its probably pretty fitting.

[oldcorollas]

Hi, just something that annoyed me today.

I noticed somebody has a username of 漂流の技術者. I can't read that and have no way of pronouncing it. I thought toymods was an australian based club?

Cheers, Jake.

actually.. it is an australian based JAPANESE CAR modifying club

[ace]

actually.. it is an australian based JAPANESE CAR modifying club

good bloody call!!! rep vote for that...(altho i dont think mine are worth anything?)

[RONA]

But one of my cars isn't japanese

[boris]

Regardless of what the club is.. I still can't read it. If i wanted Japanese i would hang out on yahoo japan or bukkakemods or something like that.

[UMP-man]

might aswel put "insert japanese characters here"
coz that all it really means to me.

[oldcorollas]

Regardless of what the club is.. I still can't read it. If i wanted Japanese i would hang out on yahoo japan or bukkakemods or something like that.

thats fair enough, but you have to remember that dorifto kiddies seem to feel a stronger bond to the japanese car culture, and who knows, maybe he is japanese...

i think people should be able to have their name as whatever they want, but they must realise that they may be labelled "that guy with a chinese character name"..

seriously tho, the idea of a "drift technician" is pretty funny to me, so i'm happy to just laugh it off

if you have a real problem with it, raise it with the board, so they can consider the implications of having non-english names on the forum.

Cya, Stewart

[fade-e]

honestly i really couldnt care what people call themselves... especially on this new forum because of the reputation system... therefore regardless of the name, if the person has a good rep then all is good for me

there is the obvious that if you want to talk to someone in particular then you wont know their name and stuff, but thats pretty minor...

[hi-ace]

I personaly don't see a problem with how his name is written.
No one on the forums use their real name in their forum name (or not many) anyway.
All this guys post are writen in english, not in Japenese. If he starts making comments in Japenese then this might become an issue but untill then I don't see any problem.

[wokstr_ae86]

i must say, thumbs up for being original!!!

[whatthe?]

I think it could only ever be a problem if there were 5 or 10 people doing it and then only because people like me wouldn't be able to distinguish between posters (I'm afraid it all looks very similar to me, my girlfriend can read katakana and kanji but I have no idea). I don't mind if it's one or 2 though, as Stewart said to me at the moment it's just another post from "the guy with the kanji name"

[Nitephyre]

not really, we've been told who he was so now we know what to still call him... where's the problem in that??

[whatthe?]

If youre answering me perhaps you might like to re-read my post. I said there is no problem providing 5 or 10 arent doing it

[river]

Hi,

Well, they're all going to be called "drift technician" to me, and, like oldcorollas, I find it rather amusing.

seeyuzz
riveruki