Make puns!

Workshop Translation Challenge
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More specifically, puns in style of Manzai, a minigame in the original Japanese version of Rhythm Heaven Fever, you can watch it from here (Japanese) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZtxJnbpbU

Here are few of the examples from the game. Just take note of the transcription. Full List.

  • 布団が吹っ飛んだ (futon ga futtonda, The futon blew off)
  • ミカンがみっかんない (mikan ga mikkan'nai, I can't find any mandarin oranges)

Basically, in a language of your choice, come up with a sentence with similar sounds repeated. Feel free to make more than one!

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Tagalog

  • Baká baka 'yan? /ba'ka 'baka 'jan/ (Maybe that's a cow)
  • Kayang kaya kayâ? /'kajaŋ 'kaja ka'jaʔ/ (Is it really possible?)

toki pona

  • palisa o pali sama ni (Sticks should work like this)
  • lipu mi li pu (My book is Toki Pona: The Language of Good)
  • o esun e suno (Please buy the lamp)
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It's bizarre that the minigame was never localized to English when the language is brimming with homophones.

  • Seven ate nine; who ate eight?
  • The gnus knew the news
  • The meeting bored the whole board
  • This cheese wheel grates real great
  • The seller's in the cellar
  • My weak heel will heal in a week
  • You can sorta hear them can soda here
  • Too much steel weighs way too much to steal
  • James, while John had had "had", had had "had had";

More in Toki Pona:

  • uta la mi utala (With my mouth, I attack)
  • mani li tan ma ni (The money is from this place)
  • nasin sina li pana sin a (Your method provides again)
  • o pana e pan a (Serve the bread already)
  • kala ma li kalama (Mudskippers make noise)
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Ewa had something like this in Bird Island (Lojban).

ni'o ni'o re mo'o (.i) citka je cidja ciste
"Start of chapter 2: Food and eating web."

Not quite the right thing, but it's a cute assonance at least and a fun coincidence!

I suppose though because of SSM, Lojban can't quite do this unless you're playing with stress.

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I'm curious if lojban can have actual puns given lack of ambiguity is one of its design goal if I recalled correctly. I don't know really much about log langs I think its possible

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There are some puns, I just can't think of any for this specific style.
One of my favorite Lojban puns is the word for joke words, {.u'ivla}. It's {.u'i} "haha" plus {vla} "word" (as combining form), and looks pretty similar to the word for loanword, {fu'ivla} "copy word" (fukpi valsi).

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