• ieightpi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    sorta related but not really. cheap cheap is a the sound a bird makes, yet Nintendo named a fish this.

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      11 months ago

      Nintendo named it puku-puku which is a common onomatopoeia for bubbling noises in Japan.

      Lots of Japanese names and puns got lost in translation back then.

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          11 months ago

          My guess is that the translator localizer thought it was akin to a flying fish since they jump out of the water. Cheep cheep makes slight sense with that train of thought. Also follows the onomatopoeia part