Introducing yourself

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Mar 27th 2009 03:21 death note

I was re-reading the English version of Death Note and I noticed that when Raito (or Light, w/e you want to call him) met Raye Penbar's Fiancee he introduced himself like this:
"I'm Yagami Raito. Kanji of 夜 (night) 神(God) from 神様 and Raito is written as 月 (Moon). Weird name, eh?" and then the girl did the same thing.

I was just wondering if people really introduce themselves like this sometimes.

Mar 27th 2009 03:51 PureReborn

English
Japanese , Mandarin

yeah its pretty common thing to do as far as I know, at least for Chinese and Japanese people. Since there are so many homophones in those two languages, it is basically required for the other person to know how to write the name.