Quote Originally Posted by silver angel
My name is kinda funny for Japanese to pronnounce.
Shi-ru-ba-na
(Silvana)
I had a Japanese guy sit for at least half and hour trying to say it correctly, I told him to call me Silly, but he refused.
The problem you can run into when getting a Japanese person to call you "silly" would be that they could be thinking that you called yourself "shiri", which means "butt"...