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Could it be a play on the word 誤解 [1]. As in '誤解のなぜ’. [1]http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E8%AA%A4%E8%A7%A3&ref=sa http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E8%AA%A4%E8%A7%
by mongeone 10y ago
Could it be a play on the word 誤解 [1]. As in '誤解のなぜ’.
[1]http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E8%AA%A4%E8%A7%A3&ref=sa http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E8%AA%A4%E8%A7%A3&ref=sa
- Agentlien 10y agoCould you explain this play on words for someone who doesn't know Japanese?
- nihonde 10y agoI'm guessing but 誤解 => 'go kai', which means 'misunderstanding'. That sounds like 五回 => 'go kai', which means five times. In Japanese, you often encounter words/phrases that sound more or less the same but are written differently.
- ume 10y agoBoth the original Japanese (meaning 5 times) and possibly pun Japanese (meaning misunderstanding) are read as 'gokai'.
- emodendroket 10y agoI don't really get how that pun works (it's not as though that's a common phrase). It seems more likely that it's chosen just because five is a round number. If we're just going for homophones it could just as easily be "fifth floor" but that also doesn't make a lot of sense as a pun.