#language puns

[ladyazurith]

[lady-of-moths]

One Piece puns

Okay, so you know how Japanese doesn't have the letter L, right? And they replace L with R.

Now, in One Piece this seems to work both ways and we see this with, for example, Laugh Tale -> Raftel and Rogue Town -> Logue Town.

Now here are two little puns I found that make use of this.

- The name of Brook's first pirate crew is a pun on rum and bones. The Rumbar pirates (cool in English too cus, you know, pirates and rum) also works as the Lumbar pirates. The lumbar is the lower back region of your spinal column or backbone.

- Sanji's Mellorine is a pun on food and falling in love. Mellorine is an imitation ice cream, which Sanji can probably make cus he can make any type of food. He's also basically saying the girls are sweet like (immitation) ice cream. Anyway, replace the "ll" with "r" and you get Mero-rine. Mero-Mero (think of Boa Hancock's devil fruit) is a Japanese expression meaning "to fall hopelessly in love".

You're welcome 🤭

[fuckwhoeverpickedallthefunnyurls]

Let me say that again

*clears throat*

Have you tried the German sausage?

I didn't like it.

It was the wurst.

OOOHHH WAIIIT HOW DID I NOT GET THAT haha you're funny anon *twirls my hair*

[druvjelly]

So. Marigold’s pseudonyms. Are of course. All related to goldfish.

Poisson Rouge means goldfish in French. (Basic enough)

Ran Chi-Yu sounds like “ranchu”. A Chinese breed of goldfish with a “hoodie” on its back.

Nishiyo Oranda, I’m unsure with the first one means. But Oranda is a type of goldfish with a bubble on their head.

[centaur-dreaming]

Me: *makes a sound of exclamation after getting hit in the stomach*

Some French dude: What? You want an egg?

[chaoticgenders]

my fav thing is how the english word "gross" sounds like the german word "groß" which means big.

there's this tiktok of a guy pissing in a bush and someone comes up and goes "gross! D:" and the guy is like "ayyy danke!!!" LIKE HELP

[nordic-language-love]

bf: how's the japanese going?

me: it's a nihongoing project

[russenoire]

i learned 走る (hashiru, to run) before i learned 歩く (aruku, to walk).

...i literally learned 'to run' before i learned 'to walk'.