Talk:Aunt Cass/@comment-3444885-20140920005928

So I'm stuck at home with a cold and I decided to Google a bit about Tadashi and Hiro's (possible) Japanese names (and now I'm doing Aunt Cass). Japanese names use 'kanji', which, put simply means that there are multiple ways to write your name (but everyone only has one way that they use; for instance, if your name is Charlye, you would never spell it Charlie). That means that there are many ways to write 'Hamada'. But the thing is, 'Cass' obviously is not a Japanese name, so it can't be written using Kanji. It can be written using 'katakana', which is usually used to write words from other languages, like English. The Japanese would pronounce 'Cass' as 'kyassu' or 'kassu', but the 'u' is mostly silent.

Hamada, Cass: 浜田 キャス 濵田 キャス 濱田 キャス

Hamada can also mean "seashore rice paddy", which is weird... but if you google 'rice paddies near the ocean', they're really pretty, haha. We don't yet know was 'Cass' is short for, if it's short for anything in the first place. Cassandra (カサンドラ, "kasandora"), Cassie ("kashi"), Cassidy (キャシディ, "kyashidi"), are all possiblities. The word for aunt is 叔母 ("oba", but you add "san" at the end if you're speaking formally.