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Yeah, as Maou said, it was probably in Katakana. If you're not sure about the difference, Katakana would spell out the name phonetically using one (or two) characters per syllable, while Kanji are the complex characters that each represent a word. So if you can remember whether it was several characters that your friend wrote down, or just two or three complex ones, it would settle the issue. Hope that helps.

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[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Mon 3 May 15:51]

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Yeah, Kanji are the more complex characters -- Chinese characters. At least in Katakana -- much simpler characters, the characters used for writing foreign words, my best shot would be:

タルベイン∙エリック
(TARUBEIN ERIKKU)
(pronounced more like TA-RH-BEIN E-RI-KKH)

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Yeah, Kanji are the more complex characters -- Chinese characters. At least in Katakana -- much simpler characters, the characters used for writing foreign words, my best shot would be:

タルベイン∙エリック
(TARUBEIN ERIKKU)
(pronounced more like TA-RH-BEIN E-RI-KKH)


Coolness. ^_^ At least I know how to say it in Japanese. But I can't see the katakana well. My computer doesn't have the download,so it looks like little squares.

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Coolness. ^_^ At least I know how to say it in Japanese. But I can't see the katakana well. My computer doesn't have the download,so it looks like little squares.

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Coolness. ^_^ At least I know how to say it in Japanese. But I can't see the katakana well. My computer doesn't have the download,so it looks like little squares.
Here's an image of the characters. Let me know if there's any problems.

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I think it may have been "Neba" too...

Which one is the right one? And can you write down the characters (no need to make image of it, i can see them).

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[this message was edited by Maou on Mon 3 May 17:45]

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Oh, and if the Talbein in question is the John Talbein from Capcom's Vampire Hunter/Darkstalkers series, it's not ta-ru-be-i-n but ta-ru-ba-i-n.

タルバイン

The ei in the English word is supposed to be read "aye" like a German name, and the Japanese to approximate that would be ta-ru-ba-i-n.

Don't know how to make the katakana a readable image for TalbeinEric, but maybe Omegadog can do it?

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Oh, and if the Talbein in question is the John Talbein from Capcom's Vampire Hunter/Darkstalkers series, it's not ta-ru-be-i-n but ta-ru-ba-i-n.

タルバイン

The ei in the English word is supposed to be read "aye" like a German name, and the Japanese to approximate that would be ta-ru-ba-i-n.

Don't know how to make the katakana a readable image for TalbeinEric, but maybe Omegadog can do it?

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[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Mon 3 May 18:59]

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Er -- actually, the last name is spelled "Talbain" with a second 'a.' Would the BEIN pronunciation still apply?

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Er -- actually, the last name is spelled "Talbain" with a second 'a.' Would the BEIN pronunciation still apply?


Woops, mispelled the English but the Japanese is right! (ta-ru-ba-i-n) I would've expected the official English name to be Talbein with the Germanish spelling so that people wouldn't say Tal-bane, which is what the タルベイン spelling above would've been. Sorry for the mixup, but the kana (I checked) is definitely タルバイン, said Tal-bine.

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[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Mon 3 May 21:21]

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ネヴァー　エンズ
nevaa enzu
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ネバー　エンズ
nebaa enzu

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-- so -BINE for Talbain, is it? I always thought it was -BANE. (Just out of curiosity though -- where did you check the kana?)

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-- so -BINE for Talbain, is it? I always thought it was -BANE. (Just out of curiosity though -- where did you check the kana?)

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So the pronunciation itself may depend on the situation, but we can at least all agree on the Katakana used to write it.

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All righty. I've been wanting to know how my nickname is written in kanji form.

How would you write "TalbainEric"? Is there a website I can scour or find it at?

Gah. My friend from Japan wrote my whole name in kanji and I lost it. ><

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Just being an ass:
Well if you want to write your name in Japanese the right way you'd be trying to spell "GallonEric" in kanji

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[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Mon 3 May 21:37]

quote And back to the point -- given his handle is TalbainEric -- that probably wouldn't change in Japanese. Say someone from Japan had the handle 'Forte____' which he explained was inspired by the Rockman series -- he wouldn't change it to 'Bass____' when posting in English.

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Hrm... with those being fansites -- and since English is most likely not their first language

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[this message was edited by Maou on Mon 3 May 23:28]

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Yeah, no harm in saying it in English that way anyway...but given the ジョン＝タルバイン's that keep showing up, I'll take their words for it--fanfics even have it that way, and a Japanese fan that into the series would have at least the Japanese right. タルベイン doens't yield a single result. Anyhow...

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