On Mar 11, 3:33=A0pm, "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Will Parsons wrote on 11 mrt 2008 in alt.language.latin:
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> > Ed Cryer wrote:
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> >>> On 11 March,9:54 PM, "Ed Cryer" <e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> <channelxs...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> > I am interested in writing my name in Latin style.
> >>>> > (I am Japanese for your information)
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> >>>> > I am male, so in my understading, the general rule should be to
> >>>> > add -
> >>>> > us to the end of my forename and surname.
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> >>>> > However, my forename ends with "o" and my surname ends with "a".
> >>>> > I have heard somewhere the names ending with "o" or "a" do not
> >>>> > need to
> >>>> > be added "-us", because it has been already seen as Lan-like.
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> >>>> > Could you please confirm if this is true, or any other converting
> >>>> > rule
> >>>> > can be applied to the case of my name?
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> >>>> > Glad if anyone could help!
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> >>>> > With best regads,
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> >>>> > KO
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> >>>> Yes. "Catilina" and "Corbulo" were famous old Roman names. Many
> >>>> others
> >>>> ending in "o" and "a" as well.
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> >>>> Tell us your names, and I'll give you my opinion as to how they
> >>>> sound in
> >>>> Latin.
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> >>>> Ed
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> >>> Thanks, Ed.
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> >>> My forename is: KENICHIRO ; &
> >>> My surname is: OGA.
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> >> Well, I see no problem with Kenichiro Oga. The "ch" in Latin was used
> >> for Greek chi; and pronounced as in "chorus".
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> > Right - which means that "Kenichiro" pronounced as [kenikiro] isn't
> > (IMO) a good Latin form for the Japanese name. =A0I would suggest
> > "Kenitiro", since that corresponds more with Japanese form. =A0It
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> > of course, be pronounced [kenitiro] in Latin, but that is how the
> > Japanese name would have been pronounced in a former stage of its
> > existence anyway.
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> > As you note, there's nothing wrong with the final -o, but if the OP
> > wants a more distinctively sounding Latinization, then he might prefer
> > -us, i.e., "Kenitirus", or something similar.
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> "Centurio Augustus", 'The venerable hundredman commander' perhaps?
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> Evertjan.
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For a long time in Europe people latinized their names by adding -us
to the first and last names. Think of :
Michel de Notre Dame =3D Nostradamus
Mikolai Koppernik =3D Nicolus Copernicus, Carl von Linne, =3D Carolus
Linnaeus
so Kenchiro Oga =3D Kenchirus Ogaeus
enjoy...
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