[VOTE] Lady of the Month - October 2008 (AND THE WINNER IS....)

[glcorps2002]

Aya Kiguchi

[Himalia]

Aya Kiguchi gets my vote.

[Ayabie]

Just in time.

Kiguchi.

[ayubon]

Momoko Tani.

Tough call this month, thouh.

[aKaoNi]

Aya Kiguchi ftw.

[LaJon]

Sawaki Risa . 

[Maikeru86]

Momoko Tani!

[daigong]

The proper tally, why ya make daigong work? fuckers!

risa 4
momo 5
kiguchi 10
sayaka 5

RACE SO TIGHT...but that extra few hours I left the poll open gave Aya Kiguchi pulled thru!



Like I said, we gonna still honor our commitment and put out some dope Meisa Kuroki downloads, but YEP. Time to dust off the Kiguchi collection, cuz best believe I haven't posted ALL THE SHIT.

[Guchi_Jnr]

Now that the poll has finished, I'm gonna go off-topic..

You know,  I always have a problem with Japanese names, because they are not consistent in first names first or last name first when the names are romanised, having a comma like western style 'last name, first name' or 'first name last name' when its without a comma would make life a lot easier.

It's really not that hard to recognize a "last name" from a "first name".. Guess for some it may take time, but from the get go I found it quite obvious..  Take the name "Smith".. Have you ever heard of anyone having that as a first name? The same goes for Japanese names.. You just won't find anyone with the "last name" of "Aya", nor will you find anyone with the "first name" of "Uchida"..

As for what order names go in, whenever I write here or speak to a non-Japanese person, I use first name first, and last name last.... and I also make my students introduce themselves in that order, but when talking to Japanese people that aren't my students, I ALWAYS use the Japanese order of first name last, and last name first..

[frblckstr1]

It's really not that hard to recognize a "last name" from a "first name".. Guess for some it may take time, but from the get go I found it quite obvious..  Take the name "Smith".. Have you ever heard of anyone having that as a first name? The same goes for Japanese names.. You just won't find anyone with the "last name" of "Aya", nor will you find anyone with the "first name" of "Uchida"..

I am starting to notice 'first names' or 'last names', it has taken me only 4 years

Mainly because:

As for what order names go in, whenever I write here or speak to a non-Japanese person, I use first name first, and last name last.... and I also make my students introduce themselves in that order, but when talking to Japanese people that aren't my students, I ALWAYS use the Japanese order of first name last, and last name first..

^ This, because you first need to understand who the person is talking to then you get a clue as to the sequence

Its like with the sentence construction in Japanese: you need to listen until the end otherwise you might miss the '-ne' (e.g. they are actually saying the opsite of what you first where hearing)
'Yoda speak' is a good sample of the same in 'English' I think Its actually not bad,makes people listen until the end and not interrupt the speaker as a lot 'like' to do in English.