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Naomi Osaka’s new project with LeBron James mocked over ‘vulgar’ name
NY Post ^
| June 24, 2022
| Andrew Court
Posted on 06/27/2022 2:20:49 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Four-time Grand Slam tennis champ Naomi Osaka is being hit with backlash over the unintentionally — or cluelessly, depending on whom you ask — offensive name of her new media company, Hana Kuma.
...Hana kuma means “flower bear” in Japanese — but Twitter users quickly noted it has a far more explicit meaning in Swahili, where it translates to “woman without a vagina.”
The lost-in-translation controversy began trending on Twitter in multiple African countries...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcourt; flowerbear; hanakuma; lebronjames; naomiosaka; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; swahili
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To: Mount Athos
I love it when the woke eat each other.
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:22:11 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Mount Athos
Now she’s more popular with the trannys 🤪
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:24:50 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it)
To: Mount Athos
“woman without a vagina.” Must be in reference to LeStinko James.
To: Mount Athos
Why would she name her company after Bruce Jenner?
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:27:47 PM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
To: Mount Athos
Hana Kuma Alert!
To: Mount Athos
... “woman without a vagina.”
Do they now hate trannies? It’s hard to keep up with the current trend.
To: Mount Athos
Is that what Ellen Page is now?
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:29:13 PM PDT
by
Houserino
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:33:00 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(z)
To: Mount Athos
In Hawaiian it means “working with athletes foot”
To: Mount Athos
Hakuna matata was rejected when the phrase’s true meaning of “man with no balls” was revealed.
To: SuperLuminal
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:36:28 PM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable STILL)
To: Mount Athos
To: Mount Athos
This is nuts.
There are probably words in almost language that phonetically mean something vulgar or offensive in some other language.
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:37:10 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Mount Athos
Wow, to think English doesn’t have such a word, should we feel gypped?
She’s a woke nutcase, hope she gets a lot of grief.
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:38:21 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: Jamestown1630
s/b ‘almost any language’.
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:39:42 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Mount Athos
Will we ever quit hearing what “twitter users said”?
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:41:41 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: Jamestown1630
So, you’re saying that if a Vietnamese farmer, named Phuc, had a female sheep...🤔
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:41:52 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: Jamestown1630
“This is nuts.”
LULZ, really...
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:44:08 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Eagles6
If you were going to name a company, would you search all the world’s languages to find out what your chosen name might mean if spoken in every one of them?
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posted on
06/27/2022 2:53:53 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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