On Feb 23, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> [*] Kame is Japanese for turtle, or more precisely it's an English
> transliteration of the Japanese for turtle.

No, it is one of the Romaji transliterations [may be the only one since it is a simple word, but there are multuple systems] for the japanese for turtle 亀 or かめ

The roman alphabet is one of the accepted alphabets and is used in writing japanese, by japanese, with English out of the question, when they cannot write kanji/hiragana/katakana.

Chad
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