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Kyousuke 01-07-2009 12:12 AM

Can you wordplay?
 
i was wondering if anyone can find similar sounding words in different languages or if you can word play.

ill give you an example.

i am half hispanic. i called my sister a Baka(stupid) and she thought i said Baca(cow). both are bad but calling a girl a cow is worse.

i heard someone with the nickname moko and i thought they said Moco(booger)

BakaCrisis 01-07-2009 12:26 AM

Yea, someone told me Baka meant cow in Spanish ;_;

Umm... A Fag means a cigarette in French.

CaptainThunder 01-07-2009 01:19 AM

"I'm really Nihonjin! See? Ichi hon, ni hon... nihonjin!"

KyleGoetz 01-15-2009 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BakaCrisis (Post 660085)
Umm... A Fag means a cigarette in French.

"Fag" means "cigarette" in English, too.define:fag - Google Search

Kyousuke 01-15-2009 09:04 PM

i got another one. the words Uso and Oso sound almost alike. Uso meaning liar in japanese and Oso meaning Bear in spanish.

Yuusuke 01-15-2009 09:05 PM

Kasa- Umbrella (japanese)
Casa- House (spanish)
Kase Cheese (german)

lol XD

Yuna7780 01-15-2009 10:36 PM

You guys are coming up with really bad "puns" AKA: what word play is.

My personal favorite is drinking penaltea when break a violation in tennis...

Harold 01-15-2009 11:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyousuke (Post 660063)
i was wondering if anyone can find similar sounding words in different languages or if you can word play.

ill give you an example.

i am half hispanic. i called my sister a Baka(stupid) and she thought i said Baca(cow). both are bad but calling a girl a cow is worse.

i heard someone with the nickname moko and i thought they said Moco(booger)

Don't you mean vaca?

Do you know pan in Japanese means the same as it does in Spanish?

There's also a drink called Calpis in Japan. I laughed when I first heard the name pronounced out loud.

chryuop 01-16-2009 01:23 PM

There is a TV show in Japan where Japanese people do the same, just the contrary :) They listen to English songs and make fun of words which sound similar to Japanese...if I can find it on youtube I will post it.

EDIT: I found one... TV Show

m4x30000 01-17-2009 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BakaCrisis (Post 660085)
Yea, someone told me Baka meant cow in Spanish ;_;

Umm... A Fag means a cigarette in French.

As a french myself I say : orly ?? Never heard someone say "fag" while referring to a cigarette :confused:


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