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Comment by JuniperMesos

6 hours ago

And the word "pine" is kinda close to "penis", what of it? Words in languages sometimes sound kinda like rude or sexual vocabulary, especially in a language like Japanese with a relatively small phoneme inventory.

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numpad0  6 hours ago

Those two aren't as close

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