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You are right that there are many homonyms in Japanese, but you are wrong in thinking that that results in nobody caring about them. Japan has a proud traditio

You are right that there are many homonyms in Japanese, but you are wrong in thinking that that results in nobody caring about them. Japan has a proud tradition of phonetic based puns, called dajare. Wikipedia has a surprisingly long list, which includes explanations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajare

Kurtz79 8y ago
"ウランは売らん (uran wa uran) Translation: I never sell uranium. Explanation: ウラン (uran) means uranium, and the second 売らん (uran) means "never sell"." While in the West we have Uranus puns.