And why is her name in the JLPT 1 Additional Vocab sections, with the definition "My Name"?

Do I win a prize for finding her? : )

James

*Prize Awarded*

Oh thankyou, how very lovely. I shall never leave home without it.

I am assuming they have a secret lady on the team who is not allowed to speak out publicly, and had thus resorted to coding secret messages into the JLPT lists to get her voice heard. Note how the last word in JLPT 1 is "put body in coffin". Coincidence? I think not. What is she trying to tell us?

James

Huh! The script that put that list together must have grabbed some user created vocabs. There was actually a similar vocab a couple sections later:

伶奈 れいな Reina (Name)

I've replaced these two words with the following:

伶人 court musician; minstrel れいじん
奈何 how; in what way; circumstances いかん
梨 nashi; Japanese pear; Asian pear リ、なし

That should cover those three characters.

So you see it was the computer that was putting those coded messages in. It was probably just complaining about us replacing our old internal server. Its time had come, that seven year old Dell.

Or maybe it has become self aware...

Her name was Rina, she was a server, with ribbon cables in the air, her motherboard was stripped down bare...

We shall avenge you, Rina. After we have finished our repetitions.

Incidentally, a name list for Skritter might be a good idea one day. Even though name-readings are hopelessly underdetermined by the characters, they are necessary for the higher levels of kanji-kentei.

James