h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, Lady Admiral, have you got the pigs and settled on a name yet?

No not really, post 35 was just sarcasm by the way, I'm not seriously naming them that. Even if I do choose I can easily change them back, it's not set in stone!!!

I though they were perfectly good names. But I don't know much about amime. Perhaps if I did it would be evident that they are inappropriate.

I do like the -chu ending I learned from this thread. I hope I remember it next time I'm naming pigs. I suppose I could add it to existing names. "Maryanne-chu"...doesn't roll off the tongue though.

Well try other Japanese extentions:

Maryanne-ohki
Maryanne-kesu
Maryanne-desu
Maryanné...

Desu is not a marker, it is a verblike sentence ender, pretty much meaning "is". -piki=insectlike, -mai=leaflike -ko=small -hito=human -bana/-hana=flower. These are counting/category markers.

(Interestingly but OT it is easy to say female or male in Japanese (onna and otoko) but to make them human you need to make a construction (onna no hito, otoko no hito) which implies a personhood belonging to the gender.

I don't recognize ohki or kesu. What do they mean?

Yoroshii, whose an expert on the Japanese language then? (that was a sarcastic question by the way). How about -chan, which means little???

Berty! Berty! Berty! Berty!