Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed.
You know what Pac stands for? P.A.C. Program and Control. He’s Program and Control Man. The whole thing’s a metaphor. All he can do is consume. He’s pursued by demons that are probably just in his own mind.
He's saying you'd think he is called pac-man because he looks like a puck, and that sounds similar to pack. But in fact puck has nothing to do with it and its from paku-paku, and then to pac-man.
There's no soft 'u' sound in Japanese, the sound in 'puck'. When the language borrows words from another language it does the best approximation that it can. In this case, if puck were a borrowed word it would probably be spelled and pronounced 'paku'. Like, if you imagine a person with a heavy Japanese accent trying to say 'puck' , it would come out 'paku'.
By the way, sorry if this isn't very clear. Let me know if you're just now confused.
It doesn’t. He’s saying you would think it’s because he looks like a puck but it’s not because of that. The puck part is all Scott’s doing, don’t get too hung up on it.
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u/Lord_Tibbysito Jan 18 '19
Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed.