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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
@pichi
I love taking photos of cute signs. In Japanese the word pig is bura (boo-rah) so I think that’s the play on words here. In American English, a “boo-boo” is an injury and you’d use it with small children: Did you fall and get a boo boo? Let me get you a bandage and kiss it and make it all better. “Boo!” is also what a ghost says when it’s trying to scare you. Languages are weird.
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Ina @ Network State School
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Correction Pichi san *: Pig in Japanese is 豚 which is read buta not bura. I'm also not sure how is connected to the parking name here lol. @anco is there some hidden meaning here?
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anco🐑
@anco
I don't think it means anything in particular, but little kids call the car a Boo Boo! Is he multiplying that by the way pigs squeal?🐖
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
@pichi
What sound does a pig make in Japanese? In English the onomatopoeia is “oink” I assumed it was “bu-bu” like half of the Japanese word since the Japanese love to make portmanteau like personal computer is PersaCom. I’m just guessing here.
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anco🐑
@anco
Maybe so! 🐖 Bu-Bu- 🐈 Mya-Mya- 🐕 Wan Wan I was surprised to learn FC that different countries have different nuances in the way animals sound!
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