A Woman Who Has Three Names.

Last night, I went out for dinner with my best friend.
After having dinner, she took me to a very stylish bar which has a huge aquarium.

As soon as we sat at the bar, she said to me, "I forgot to tell you this. Call me Miki here. Never call me with my real name. The owner of this bar is a customer at my second work place. He is one of the people I can't tell my real name."

To avoid affecting her career, she uses another name, Miki, there.

I said,"Okay. I'll never use it."

After a while, the owner came up and we talked a lot together. It was easy to talk without using her real name, but it was only the beginning. In the middle of the talking, I said her real name so many times that she nudged my foot under the table, every time.

After leaving the bar, I apologized and she said, "You are too stupid. You should not have reacted when you called my name!" But we couldn't stop laughing because I reacted to what I said by myself and my face seemed so funny to her. I'm sure that I actually acted oddly to recover what I said.

If you are a Japanese speaker you could imagine easily how difficult her order was.
In Japanese, we use the person's name instead of "you."

She has taken her friend there before and the person also couldn't call Miki so she decided that she will never take her friends there again. The friend calls her with a distinct name. He must be confused because he has heard her three names.

The Most Romantic Language For Love

By the investigation that the translation company in London conducted a survey of more than 320 the language experts, the most romantic word is French "amour" which means "love."

Italian "amore" came in a close second. Italian and Spanish's "bellissima", which means "very beautiful", came in third and "tesore" which means "dear" is used for calling for a lover came in fouth. Italian language came in first as the most romantic language. On the other hand, Japanese "私はあなたを愛しています", which means "I love you", came in first as the worst sound, overtaking the fanciful language "Kingonese", which was used in a SF TV drama "Star Trek."



Oh, nooooooo Japanese lost in the race of the fanciful language!



Where on earth are there experts for "Kingonese"?

I'm not sure how many members of the group understand Japanese language, but I guess the number must have been very few. In the case of Japanese, we don't say the subject and the object in that sentence and never say it like that. We say only "愛してる." This sound may be not so romantic, but I think this word is rarely used so that it has more romantic and deeper meaning than "I love you" or "ti amo", which are often used. I won't intend to say which one is better.


What's more, in my humble opinion, Italian language is for love because it's easy to hear sweet words in their daily life in Italy, but the most romantic language is definitely French! I just like its soft sound somehow.