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[extemporally]

Heeey, what's up. It's only 10 a.m. over here and I feel so cranky already! I am mostly cheering myself up by thinking about how awesome Asada Mao is. She competed at the 2008 Worlds without a coach, you guys. And then she won! Is that not amazing! She is pretty awesome.

Additional pet peeve:

-- I dislike it when people refer to East Asian skaters by "given name, family name". That is not how it goes! I always twitch when I see mentions of "Yu-Na Kim", although weirdly enough I always catch myself calling Mao "Mao Asada" in my head. This is when I >:( at myself again.

But here are some things that makes me happy:

-- Mao is the South Koreans' favourite Japanese celebrity. Yu-Na is the Japanese' favourite Korean celebrity. :D!

-- They are BFFs. THERE CAN BE NO HATESEX WITH THEM. EVER. (Um, that came out a little cranky.)

-- Mao's pretty.

Comments

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

Hmm -- I'm not sure about rejecting 'Yuna'. I used to write that because her name is pronounced 'Yeon-a' in Korean, and was supposed to be spelt that way, only it got rendered incorrectly when she was applying for her visa? For that reason 'Yu-Na' makes me uneasy because it splits the syllables very clearly at an incorrect place, whereas 'Yuna' doesn't rule out the proper pronunciation completely.

BUT I JUST KEEP SEEING 'Yu-Na' AROUND. And I am a conformist! /o\

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is interesting! I didn't know that. In that case, I think it depends on which version she personally uses. I mean, it may have been rendered incorrectly, but you can still pronounce it right. For example, my name is Катя, the English spelling which is closest to the way I pronounce is is Katya and yet I spell it Katia and then tell people how to say it correctly.

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

Yeah, going with that too!

Also, that (wrt your name) is good to know. I'll be adjusting my brainvoice when pronouncing your name, then! :)