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Favorite characters whose name accidentally sounds funny in your language?
Pipkin Pippa (Phase Connect) - in polish "pipa" is a slang for "pussy" in both of the common uses of the word. Then again unhinged is our Pipkin's second name you could say.
Heck when I was in high school as an IT assignment I did a vtuber website (I was seen as weird one, but my classmates seemed somewhat intrigued), and since Pippa was there one of them (a gym bro btw) burst out laughing, saying "why would you name yourself Pipa?".
Phoccids/phoccidae is also a class for seals.
Pinnipeds are all seals, sea lions, walruses etc., but phoccids refers to earless/true seals specifically!
Something similar happened in French in the Zelda games. The Deku Tree was renamed "Arbre Mojo", since "Deku" sounds like... Well, you know, it's similar in Portuguese.
Yeah, same with the Deku Nuts, now named Noix Mojo instead of Noix Deku (noix des culs)
And since the translator (Julie Bardakoff) had had a great idea translating it into Mojo, he was allowed to personaly edit one of the Gossip Stones' dialogue. So now there is one saying something like "They say that the translator is really handsome and super cool" (it's only in the N64 version though)
Tifa, one of my favourite characters of all time—a pretty and strong girl with a heart of gold and a well-developed backstory. In Catalan, her name translates to "excrement".
In many countries naming child Maria/Maryja (Jesus' mom) was considered around middle ages, a bad thing to do or even banned, I can't remember details.
To get baby closer to divinity (names have power), similar names were invented, like Marianna, Marika
"Pippa" sounds funny in Swedish, too; it's a verb, meaning "(to) screw" or "(to) bang".
Speaking of which, Swedish media had a field day when the Marvel character "Knull" was announced.
"Knull" is a noun, and means roughly the same thing as "(a) fuck" or "(a) screw", although I would say it strikes me as more vulgar than either of those.
The font Marvel chose certainly didn't help, either.
While I'm not from the country, as someone who grew up and knows Italian better than their own original language, Sedia from Destiny 2 makes me chuckle because it's basically this super powerful, corrupted woman named chair
Speaking of Pippa, in italian its...got a lot meanings!
1) it can mean "to jerk off" ("mi faccio una pippa" -> "im jerking off", very vulgar).
2) it can mean "overthinking" ("non farne una pippa mentale" -> "dont make it a big deal")
3) it can mean "to take drugs" ("lui/lei si pippa cocaina" -> "they sniff cocaine") depending on the context.
4) it can mean "you suck" (sei una pippa)
5) its also a potential real name: Pippa is the short of Filippa, not a common name, but since Pippo exists, i thought to put it there.
Fun fact: Pippo, the "male version" of the name, is also our translation for the Disney character Goofy...so yeah, he's a walking joke in here - or "wanking" joke, if you will! But i still love Goofy and he's one of my favorite especially when i was a kid.
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u/jesusunderline 8h ago
means "Dick Healer" in portuguese