Lost in Translation

My wife was looking at my aikido membership card and pointed out that they misspelled my name. As a result of the mistake my name translates into "little toilet" or "kid's toilet". That reminds me of a story Ayumi told me when she first came to Canada. She had a chinese guy in her class at Carleton. Most Chinese students adopt a western name because their names tend to be difficult for English speakers to pronounce. Ayumi's class mate decided to do a litteral translation of the chinese characters that made up his name. I think his dad was a sailor or a fisherman or something like that. He told everyone that his name was "Sea Man".