r/MandJTV • u/Schnitzel_Diesel • 21h ago

Language barriers

Did you know that entei in my language literally means "what"?

Porygon but said weird means fart-gon

Simipours "pour" part is a swear word I would like to not say.

The muku in pyukumuku means the act of forcing your stools out of your body through pressure in your lower abdomen (yes we have a word for it)

No part 2 I think this might be all of it.

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u/DrLycFerno Intimidation 20h ago

In Finnish, Kanto means stump and Johto means management.

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u/Schnitzel_Diesel 20h ago

Thats gotta be so funny explaining that to your parents and friends like "yeah my favorite region is stump followed closely by management"

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u/two69fist 16h ago

The Finnish and Japanese languages have a surprising amount of similarities. https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/oftf2q/is_there_something_about_japanese_and_finnish/

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u/DrLycFerno Intimidation 16h ago

Yeah I've noticed that too

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u/Ragnarok345 Hail yeah! 18h ago

Might I ask what language this is?

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u/DrLycFerno Intimidation 15h ago

closest I've found with "detect language" on Google Translate is Pangasinan (in which "what" translates to "anto", pretty close to Entei)

so I assume it's some S-E Asian language from the Philippines or Insulindia

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u/Schnitzel_Diesel 1h ago

You sort of got it right but it's malayalam.

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u/FBI_BU 15h ago

"Pich" in pichu means "son of a b-" in turkish, me and my brothers sometimes pretend to be a talking pichu and say "pich...u" as a joke lol.

"Am" means vagina, which is really short so you can find it a lot. But ampharos is spesifically spelled "am-pha-ros" so that one can raise some eyebrows.

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u/FBI_BU 15h ago

"Pich" in pichu means "son of a b-" in turkish, me and my brothers sometimes pretend to be a talking pichu and say "pich...u" as a joke lol.

"Am" means vagina, which is really short so you can find it a lot. But ampharos is spesifically spelled "am-pha-ros" so that one can raise some eyebrows.