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Author Topic: WCDT Strips 3051-3055 (21th to 25th September 2015)  (Read 30253 times)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3051-3055 (21th to 25th September 2015)
« Reply #200 on: 06 Oct 2015, 20:30 »

Then again, there are instances of names becoming unintentionally funny or otherwise.

The example I use was of a, I think, Vietnamese Restaurant opened many years ago where I live. I think they were recent Immigrants or Refugees. They used, I think, their name and the word Restaurant on the big sign   Thing was, the name was Phuc Yu Restaurant.

It took them a while to realise the unintentional pun/joke, but six or seven months later, they changed the name.



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Re: WCDT Strips 3051-3055 (21th to 25th September 2015)
« Reply #201 on: 07 Oct 2015, 09:10 »

Pho King is the best pho pun, and it has the benefit of visually slipping by the censors.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3051-3055 (21th to 25th September 2015)
« Reply #202 on: 07 Oct 2015, 12:52 »

So it's basically "fff" followed by a pause? Because "low rising" on that vowel is removing it altogether.
Looks like it's actually "low falling-rising" (Vietnamese hỏi tone) rather than "low rising" if that helps.  Why would the tone remove the vowel?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3051-3055 (21th to 25th September 2015)
« Reply #203 on: 08 Oct 2015, 22:32 »

Then again, there are instances of names becoming unintentionally funny or otherwise.

The example I use was of a, I think, Vietnamese Restaurant opened many years ago where I live. I think they were recent Immigrants or Refugees. They used, I think, their name and the word Restaurant on the big sign   Thing was, the name was Phuc Yu Restaurant.

It took them a while to realise the unintentional pun/joke, but six or seven months later, they changed the name.

There's a restaurant here in San Francisco called "Phuket Thai" that's had that name forever. Apparently "Phuket" is not actually pronounced anything like "Fuck it".
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Re: WCDT Strips 3051-3055 (21th to 25th September 2015)
« Reply #204 on: 08 Oct 2015, 23:01 »

IIRC, "Phuket" is a place in Thailand, and is pronounced more closely to "pu kay"
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