Post by eckstein on Aug 10, 2015 14:10:38 GMT 9
Anyone else have experience with having to double check name readings for translations into English?
I just got to the end of a translation for the Art Museum here and at the end they have a section where they credit all the folks involved in the project.
I looked at it for a second and realized that I'm not even confident with regular 名字 let alone Okinawan crazy 読み方. I called the Art Museum to find out about the people's names, and the lady was a super duper sour puss. She was just really not into telling me the names of anyone except for the president of the organization that ran the project, and then she gave me this person's personal cell phone number...
I asked my 課長 if it was appropriate to call this lady, and he was like nah and then just did it himself. Called the same number, got the same lady, and she did the same thing to him as she did to me (so not a 差別 or a 日本語 problem). He ended up emailing somebody and getting all of the names for me, but is this normal? Am I missing something? I thought I was being polite by asking for confirmation before I just put all of their names into an online database and guessed, but is it like super rude to ask how to read people's names?
I just got to the end of a translation for the Art Museum here and at the end they have a section where they credit all the folks involved in the project.
I looked at it for a second and realized that I'm not even confident with regular 名字 let alone Okinawan crazy 読み方. I called the Art Museum to find out about the people's names, and the lady was a super duper sour puss. She was just really not into telling me the names of anyone except for the president of the organization that ran the project, and then she gave me this person's personal cell phone number...
I asked my 課長 if it was appropriate to call this lady, and he was like nah and then just did it himself. Called the same number, got the same lady, and she did the same thing to him as she did to me (so not a 差別 or a 日本語 problem). He ended up emailing somebody and getting all of the names for me, but is this normal? Am I missing something? I thought I was being polite by asking for confirmation before I just put all of their names into an online database and guessed, but is it like super rude to ask how to read people's names?
