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Japan · Japanese meaning
Bread-making can become an underwear-eating question
A Japanese sound sequence asking about having made bread can be resegmented to ask about having eaten underwear. This illustrates ginatayomi, wordplay that changes meaning by moving word boundaries. The sounds can stay close while the listener assigns them to very different words.
The surprise lies in how the stream is divided.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05