I have a curious question.
Hayate means hurricane in Japanese. So does this mean the Japanese also spell it this way? (I know they don't, but I'm trying to understand their thinking). Why would they name the team an English version of the Japanese pronounced word and write it in the Latin alphabet? It seems a bit confusing for everybody, the Japanese are probably wondering what is "Hayate" since their language does not use the Latin based alphabet, therefore the phonetics mean nothing, right? (Think about this for a moment, if somebody used say the Vietnamese alphabet to write a word from their language in English, would you be able to decipher it? Why not just use the Japanese character meaning "Hurricane" like they do with the Hayabusa Japanese symbol which means "Falcon"? I don't know how to say "Falcon" in Japanese, but wouldn't it be strange to name a team that and use Latin/English letters to sound it out in Japanese? Seems crazy to me. I mean, what if the Japanese had an alphabet, would you understand how to pronounce a word using Jap symbols for an English pronunciation? Seems ........ to even think like that.
Any thoughts?
(c'mon, even though we are looking at a test, its still the off-season, so anything is fair game...)