Yup :yes

LOL, there aren't many Ching's up in Washington. I was bored and looked in the phonebook once :laugh

yeah, Namie is na - mi - eh

i just call her amuro :-/

^ I used to call her Amuro too, back in the day, since I thought that was her first name *sweatdrops* (There's a Gundam character named Amuro, so yeah..)

I've always said Na-mee-eh, I've never called her Na-Mee or anything like that.. ~o~

its pretty common4japanese 2call artists by their lastname,,, like, obviously ppl would instantly recognise "ayu" as referrin2 "hamasaki" or "hama ayu" or whatever, but wit da others most ppl would say amuro, nakasima, utada etc...

Na-mi-e, the right pronounciation. Whenever it's Japanese I'll try to pronounce in the correct way. Just like Hikki's name... Utada Hikaru --> do you call Utada Hika'l'u or Hika"r"u??

^ er, i try n do it da japanese way hikaル... but i usually just call her utada or hickey... but thats just me

i say nah-mee but i know its nah-mee-eh since im taking japanese right now. But i like the sounding of nah-mee amuro better

I ALWAYS used to say Nahmee .. but now I make myself say Nami-eh.. it would be cool if it was spelled like "Namié" .. XD the é would make people pronounce the EH.. like Beyoncé ;P

I say Na mee eh.
Coz' this the way Verbal call her "Lovin' it" XD

i say nah-mee but it's an american thing? the name "Namie" here is pronounced "Nami" like "katie" is pronounced "katii"

Actually, on her california interview, they asked her "is it oo-tada or you-tada?" and she said "either way is fine, I say oo-tada because it sounds more Japanese".

so there's no reason to be annoyed. :/


(Sorry for double post)

^I know a lot of people at my school who are from foreign countries and their names are buthered on accident all the time. So I do think there is something to be annoyed of. I guess it depends on the person.

But if someone is from a foreign country, they have to think that their name is going to be pronounced wrong. My name is "Amber", so if I moved to Japan I'd probably get a thousand variations:

"Amabaru"
"amubara"
"Amubaru"
"Amabara"

etc etc..

You can't expect foreigners to pronounce your name correctly, and if they do, props to them~

It's Nah-mee-eh, she says it in a bunch of her songs.

So does that make it correct in Japanese? If it does, then sorry my bad. If it isn't, then well, actually I don't care if Hikki minds or not, I was just using her name as an example (same goes for names like Uehara etc)

I can understand if people can't pronounce Chinese or Korean because the words are prounounced very differently from what they're used to. Nah-mee-eh isn't difficult for English-speakers to pronounce at all. I don't mean that people ought to be put to death for thinking it's pronounced Nah-mee, since they most likely haven't tried learning Japanese. It's just a pet peeve :P

i say nah-mee-eh and so does the rest of my family...

na-mee-eh

Na-mi-eh

:yes
And not the other one cuz when they announce her in shows like Hey!x3, MS, MF or something else they always say "Naa-mee-eh/Na-mi-eh"