Talk:Ko Otani
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[edit] Article name
- IMDB knows him as 'Kô Ôtani', which I assume is ASCII for 'Kō Ōtani'. According to their database, he's been credited as 'Kow Otani' only twice and 'Kou Otani' only once out of 30 different credits.
- Google ranks them 'kou otani' (3150), 'ko otani' (1420), 'kow otani' (832), 'kou ootani' (539), 'kow ootani' (233), and 'ko ootani' (32).
- According to my system's KANJIDIC file, the only two readings of '幸' starting with 'ko' are plain 'ko' (in names only) and 'kou' (hence 'kō').
It seems to me the use of 'kow' is really just a cheap (7-bit) transliteration to make casual non-Japanese pronounce it vaguely correctly.
If there are no objections, I'll see if I can get around to renaming the page to 'Kō Ōtani' and editing the intro paragraph (to include all of 'kow', 'kou', and 'ootani' as A.K.A.s) later on. – Wisq 14:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Two months passed with no objections, so I've done the move. I'll need to figure out exactly what A.K.A.s to put in later. — Wisq 19:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Mr. Otani is a friend of mine and did the music for my film, The iDol. He requests that his name be spelt "Kow".
