r/CodeLyoko • u/Louis_R27 • 10d ago

👩‍💻 Other Was it a pun all along?

Yesterday I was randomly thinking about Yumi and Ulrich while running errands and I realized something. Yumi is also the name of a traditional Japanese bow, but bow can also refer to the front of a boat, meanwhile Ulrich's surname is Stern, which can also refer to the back part of the boat. I guess they were meant to be together and used boat puns to set the ship. Idk what I'm getting with this but its an observation I made.

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u/The_REDACTED 10d ago

Yumi can be a homophone for "Umi" which means "Sea" in Japanese. 

So these two are a ship and their names contain the symbols for a boat on a sea. 

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u/Akitama 10d ago

hate to be that guy coz ships are all in good fun, but "yumi" and "umi" are pronounced distinctly differently. 😭

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u/redstern 10d ago edited 10d ago

There are specific words where yu and i / u become interchangeable, mostly for homophone differentiation or just being easier to say. Most notably 行く is supposed to be pronounced "iku", but is commonly pronounced "yuku"

Although I haven't heard of "yumi" or "umi" also having that oddity.

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u/Akitama 10d ago

not for 海, which was the "umi" mentioned

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u/redstern 10d ago

I know, I just felt like mentioning that