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日本語でワンピース Text March 29, 2020 245 notes

Anonymous asked: Someone might have already asked this, but why does Luffy call Law "Torao"?

I’ve talked about it here! Basically Law’s name is pronounced/written as トラファルガー/torafarugaa in Japanese, and Luffy tries to pronounce that one (1) time before giving up and shortening it to the first two syllables (トラ/tora) plus 男/o which is the kanji for like ‘dude/guy’, so put together you get トラ男/torao.

Tags: i got a ton of asks about the different english translations for this nickname last time i mentioned it my favorite one is 'traffy' on account of sounding like smth an english speaker would actually say and it just sounds better than like 'tra-guy' which is technically the more accurate translation but sounds worse jonny answers one piece japanese luffy law

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