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Originally Posted by BlackCatXIII

Q. Does the letter L come from L's full name.. If so is L's name an english word (like "Light")
Q. What happens if the user of the Death Note writes his name in it.. Will he die..
Q. Does time flow differently in the world of the shinigami.. or is it just a difference in calculating days/months/years

Spoiler for 1):

L's real name was never revealed in the manga storyline, but recently an extra book was released (How to read or something like that) which gives his full name. There was a thread which had that info, I'll dig it up if you want.

Spoiler for 2):

There's no reason to think that they won't, imho. If the user pictures himself/herself while writing their own name, it stands to reason that they will die. This is speculation on my behalf though.

Spoiler for 3):

Based on the scanlations and Viz's translation of the scene (I've yet to watch the fansub), Ryuk uses the word 'convert', so it seems like time is calculated differently. The other thing is that Ryuk also mentions how if a Shinigami kills someone at 40 years of age when they were supposed to live until 60, those 20 years of human world time get added to the lifespan of the Shinigami. So it does indeed seem like it is simply a difference in calculating the time rather than it flowing differently.

Originally Posted by Rurik

Spoiler:

Hmmm, when this was revelead???? Not to mention you are aware that Mellow was not M real name and Near was not N real name. So maybe this Lawliet name is the same for L.

Spoiler:

There was a 13th book released just recently I believe, which was "How to Read" a.k.a. Volume 13: Truth. Apparently there's a lot of character info in that book. That's where L's real name is revealed. Go to the second last page in the manga discussion thread, there's talk of it there.