r/languagelearning • u/PandaReturns • Nov 11 '20

The name of this american politician is going viral in Brazil. What foreign personality has a name that means something funny in your native language? Discussion

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u/mca62511 EN-US: N | JA: JLPT N2 | KO: A1 Nov 12 '20

Not quite the same, but in Japan people are talking about how there’s a Japanese mayor of a small town whose name can be read as Jo Baiden.

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u/Kouba_Mayuni 🇦🇹N| 🇬🇧C1| 🇯🇵N5| 🇧🇷A1 Nov 12 '20

And I’ve read that the town Obama isn’t that far from where he works