Yachimonechi

[vyxle]

Today a girl had a tattoo in Katakana on her arm. I was a bit confused by it, so I asked what it meant.

"It's my name!"

"Your name is...Yachimonechi? Really?"

"No. Tasha."

"Oh, right. Right."

Wow, awkward.

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So, can anyone tell me what this might actually mean?

ヤチモネチ

Comments

[motoki25]

Sometimes people will stumble upon one of those fonts available online that maps each kana to a different letter, like this:

http://www.dafont.com/katakana.font

It's not that font in particular, but I'm guessing either she or the tattoo artist used one of those types of fonts (or a table generated with one of those types of fonts) to 'translate' each English letter into the equivalent 'Japanese letter', in the way that only someone who knows absolutely nothing about Japanese can.

[tizol]

I expect that they picked katakana that "kind of look like" romaji.

ヤ - T
チ - A
モ - S
ネ - H
チ - A

It's kind of a difficult mapping for mo->s and ne->h; if you put chi on its side, though, it does pretty much look like A.

[rottenfruit]

haha! Sounds like the geeky kind of question I'd ask!

[sundancekat]

It means "stupid white girl", duh. :p

[cookie3]

Correct.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yachimonechi

:/

[aidan2]

reminds me of a conversation i heard on a beach.

-Big buff guy with some form of Kanji or Katakana big and bold across his back-

-small asain man walks up-
"Do you know what your tatoo means?
-big guy-
"Yeah: Strength and Honor"
-asian man-
*giggle* "No: Salt pepper ketchup"