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kaigouIf you see this name showing up on your list, eh, it's just me.
ETA: ahem, the good (and bad, if you're a student) of Mandarin is the tonal element, and if you don't know the tones (and don't have the characters) then pinyin could mean any of a huge number of things. In this case, gou is third tone: 狗 (dog). Although if I said first tone instead, it could mean "bamboo frame for drying clothes" -- 篝. But third tone could just as well be "basket for trapping fish" -- 笱.
Kai is third tone. So depending on mood, it could be 凯 (triumphant), 剀 (careful), 慨 (generous), 恺 (joyful), or the one I actually intended, which is 锴 (iron, of the kind used in armor & swords). Although if I said it's fourth tone, it'd be 忾, which means angry.
It's not Japanese, however, as I'm not a student of that language, though it is nice to hear that it has a positive meaning in that language -- "change of era" is apt. My original idea, actually, also had a meaning in Japanese, of "dissolution" (as in debt). But then I decided that fourth-tone shou --狩 (imperial hunting dog) -- wasn't common enough in usage compared to gou, and although in third tone it could be 守 (guarding), I didn't want it confused with 兽 (wild beast), even if the pun of 寿 (life, longevity) would've been nice. Besides, I don't like the sound of 'sh' nearly as much as the middle-ground tone of a hard 'g', on the ears.
ETA: ahem, the good (and bad, if you're a student) of Mandarin is the tonal element, and if you don't know the tones (and don't have the characters) then pinyin could mean any of a huge number of things. In this case, gou is third tone: 狗 (dog). Although if I said first tone instead, it could mean "bamboo frame for drying clothes" -- 篝. But third tone could just as well be "basket for trapping fish" -- 笱.
Kai is third tone. So depending on mood, it could be 凯 (triumphant), 剀 (careful), 慨 (generous), 恺 (joyful), or the one I actually intended, which is 锴 (iron, of the kind used in armor & swords). Although if I said it's fourth tone, it'd be 忾, which means angry.
It's not Japanese, however, as I'm not a student of that language, though it is nice to hear that it has a positive meaning in that language -- "change of era" is apt. My original idea, actually, also had a meaning in Japanese, of "dissolution" (as in debt). But then I decided that fourth-tone shou --狩 (imperial hunting dog) -- wasn't common enough in usage compared to gou, and although in third tone it could be 守 (guarding), I didn't want it confused with 兽 (wild beast), even if the pun of 寿 (life, longevity) would've been nice. Besides, I don't like the sound of 'sh' nearly as much as the middle-ground tone of a hard 'g', on the ears.
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*blinks* Is it Sol?
Date: 29 Oct 2007 03:36 pm (UTC)What does kaigou mean?
Also, I miss you. We haven't spoken in forever XP
Re: *blinks* Is it Sol?
Date: 29 Oct 2007 05:39 pm (UTC)*squeee!*
Date: 29 Oct 2007 07:14 pm (UTC)Re: *squeee!*
Date: 29 Oct 2007 07:38 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm trying to get into some better habits myself. We can inspire each other maybe?
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Date: 29 Oct 2007 06:48 pm (UTC)(Oi, I don't have your new email address, so did Zeal forward the picture of Sachiko with her new baby, the orange monkey? It's not the highest quality, and I'm trying to catch a better picture, but every time she sees the camera, she stops whatever she's doing and hunkers down. I'm not sure why, but it means I have to be especially sneaky.)
See edited post, above, for extended meaning-options.
I know, I know! No visits in so long... Aren't you coming up this way for at least one home-game this year? I'd like to do a major not-really-thanksgiving day, and have folks come from all over to celebrate both un-holiday and a new (mostly) kitchen... but that won't be until after exams. The suggestion of anything before then gets a grumpy recitation of all the exam dates and upcoming papers due... sigh. Life with student.
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Date: 29 Oct 2007 07:19 pm (UTC)I believe I'll be in town for the game on Nov 10th. It's our last home game. I've been up for a few others, but they've either been family weekends, or very very short trips. I came up for that awful KS game and stood in the rain before driving back home the same day.
We just need to arrange a weekend, obviously :) If you're talking after exams, it'll have to be after Christmas and New Years, but I'd love to come up for a weekend. Keep me posted on maybe good visit dates. I just have to plan ahead :P