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would you name your daughter MEOW-CHILD?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:59 pm
by jeffbert
Upon transcribing the data in the 2003 series boxed set #1's DVD booklet, I thought it both funny & odd that the little girl whose ice cream ends up on a woman's blouse was actually named
ニャン子 / Nyan-ko / Meow child
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:26 pm
by Fauna
Well, in Japanese, it's not immediately something as ridiculous sounding as "meow child." From a Japanese language standpoint, it sounds like a mild pun on similar, normal names like Nanako or Miko. (Which in a literal sense mean "seven child" and "god child.")
It's kinda like how Anglophones name their kids "Lily" or "Brooklyn", despite how ridiculous it sounds in other languages that a kid is named after a plant or a city.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 1:26 am
by jeffbert
Thanks, Fauna; I really though that it was an odd name, but now know better.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:56 am
by Tnarrud
l would not call my daughter Meow-Child, but if l had one, l would call her Ozma Beatrice Durrant