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If only Miyazaki would have had this when he named Laputa: Castle in the sky
by tsotha 11y ago
If only Miyazaki would have had this when he named Laputa: Castle in the sky
- jcl 11y agoFWIW, he got the name from Jonathan Swift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa
- tsotha 11y agoWho... apparently didn't speak Spanish.
- desdiv 11y ago>As "la puta" means "the whore" (see Spanish profanity), some Spanish editions of "Gulliver's Travels" use "Lapuntu", "Laput", "Lapuda" and "Lupata" as bowdlerisations. It is likely, given Swift's brand of satire, that he was aware of the Spanish meaning. (Gulliver, himself, claimed Spanish among the many languages in which he was fluent.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa