[TAG] Japanese help

[Kat Tanaka]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:15:20PM +0000, Pete Savage wrote:
> Hi Kat,
> Thank you for the reply.
> 
> It's for my wife for christmas, she is very fond of the Japanese
> culture, in particular Manga and Anime.  I wanted to write her almost
> like a scroll that I could frame for her for christmas
> 
> What would be most appropriate in this instance

Eek! That's really sweet, but in a Japanese context it's even more 
bizarre. Declarations of love like that are meant to be *private* in 
Japan, so something that would be framed and on a wall... Aiee.

Would she go for a Chinese hanzi (i.e. looks like Japanese kanji) thing 
instead?

What you'd want in that case is "Wo ai ni", which is just fine.

You could do "Lisa daisuki" (Lisa (is) (my) favorite), which has a certain 
"adolescent carved on a tree" charm to it.

Kat
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