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FWIW, he got the name from Jonathan Swift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa
by jcl 11y ago
FWIW, 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