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What IS Her Name?
Original post as of 2005-11-10 2:01pm:
When I first planned to talk about the England main female character, I had a headache trying to translate the Taiwan version's 萊隆 to a girl's name. It's simply too masculine (even in Chinese). Later I decided to use Laila since the first half will be more or less the same. = ="
i88gerbils said he used "Liza Middleton", which is definitely a better representation of the Japanese name, and more feminine too. Last night Ririna pinged me and suggested 萊莎 (Lai-sa). Lisa or Liza are definitely better choices for English names. Depending on how you pronounce the name in Japanese and English, for Chinese, we could use 萊莎 or 莉莎 (Li-sa).
A small comfort is that the surname is translated correctly. (I just cut a short phrase to avoid spoiler.)
Update:
Whoops! Looks like I made a mistake. Ririna told me that actuall Liza's name in Chinese is 萊薩 (Lai-sa), I've mistaken it for 隆 coz it's a word that I seldom used. Even if I read the word correctly, I still don't know how to pronounce it. = =" So it's Liza all right. Sorry, Softstar. >_<
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