From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/14/15 3:37 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > David Goldfarb  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >>> On 1/8/15 2:10 PM, Elaine T wrote:   
   >>>    Some years ago he posted either   
   >>>> here or on sf.written about reading a fanfic where Harry Potter uses   
   >>>> the Kamemeha (?) Wave spell against his enemy.   
   >>   
   >> Kamehameha.   
   >   
   > I suppose there's no point in asking how the name of a late   
   > Hawaiian king became a deadly curse in anime/manga/whatever?   
   >   
      
   	Toriyama (the creator of Dragonball) loves multilingual cultural   
   references and puns. He and his wife stayed at the Kamehameha hotel in   
   Hawaii, and he noted that "Kame" is the Japanese for "Turtle", and then   
   created Kame-Senin (Turtle Master or Turtle Hermit), a wise (dirty) old   
   martial arts master whose crowning achievement was the Kame-Hame-HA,   
   which if you twist things around a bit in Japanese can be translated as   
   Turtle Power Strike/Wave, but of course is really just his reference to   
   the old Hawaiian King and the hotel named after him. It's pronounced   
   slightly differently -- the King, IIRC, is something like KAmayha-mayha,   
   while the Ki attack is "KahMay-HaMay-HA!" or, when being summoned up in   
   a big, dramatic scene, "KA... MAY... HA... MAY.... HAAAAAAAAAAA!"   
      
      
   	This is a typical Toriyama thing. He has the main female character   
   named Bulma, pronounced Bu-lu-ma, which is the Japanese pronounciation   
   of "Bloomer", and her father is named Dr. Briefs, her son is named   
   Trunks, and her daughter was named Bra. Goku, of course, is named after   
   the Monkey King, but his friends include Kuririn, which has been guessed   
   to refer to everything from Curried Rice to a particular sort of monk's   
   bell, Yamucha whose name is a Japanese form of Dim Sum, Oolong (tea),   
   Tenshinhan which is a reference to a particular rice dish AND to a   
   Chinese location, and then there's Piccolo Daimao, Demon King Piccolo,   
   who first shows up with henchmen named Drum, Tamborine, and Piano,   
   obviously showing us that his name means the musical instrument... and   
   later on we find he's an alien, from a race of sluglike people whose   
   names start referencing pickles. The suffix -o or oh in Japanese means   
   king or lord, so that makes him Pickle-O, Lord Pickle.   
      
      
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