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jrb
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 Dec-11-01, 07:04 PM (EDT)
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"Don't you hate it when someone needs to have a joke explained?"
 
   Sorry, but I must ask, as it has been bothering me for a couple of days. In Aegis Florea, it is mentioned that the name of the Imperial Floral Assault Group is a pun in Japanese. Now, I do know a bit of Japanese, but I have not been able to puzzle this out even with the help of a dictionary. Explain please?

> Off-duty, the Imperial Floral Assault Group were still -on-
> duty, as they became the Imperial Theater Company (a clever pun,
> Moreau thought, even if it did only work in Japanese).

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1. "RE: Don't you hate it when someone needs to have a joke explained?"
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   >Sorry, but I must ask, as it has been bothering me for a couple of
>days. In Aegis Florea, it is mentioned that the name of the Imperial
>Floral Assault Group is a pun in Japanese. Now, I do know a bit of
>Japanese, but I have not been able to puzzle this out even with the
>help of a dictionary. Explain please?

The characters they use to write the organization's name in Japanese can be interpreted to mean two different things:

- Imperial Floral Assault Group (or Force, or Army, or what have you);
- Imperial Theater Company.

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jrb
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 Dec-11-01, 08:16 PM (EDT)
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2. "RE: Don't you hate it when someone needs to have a joke explained?"
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   Ah, got it. Kagekidan can be written in kanji two different ways, depending on which meaning you want it to have.

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