Not too surprising. Japanese has significantly fewer possible syllables than English or other Indo-European languages, therefore homophones are much more common.

This is just as awesome as finding out the kanji for ‘vanitas’ is also a written pun on ‘sora’.

Well dust can also be kuzu….

@Background Pony  
Also, the character that is used as the shorthand for “German” doesn’t mean “poison”, it means “alone”. It’s just pronounced the same as the character for poison.

@Background Pony  
“Doku” is hardly ever used in the meaning of “German” outside of newspaper headlines though. The default word is “Doitsu”.

The Japanese words for “German” and “Poison” are both pronounced “Doku”. Ffffffffffftttt

I wish people would give two sh#ts about what words I similar in MY language, I wish I was hip like Japan.

@Background Pony  
it would most likely be kanji or hiragana. katakana are mostly used for loan words.

whats the japanese word for:  
TIME TO BE A HUGE CUNT!
 
no seriously, i wana know.

@Kawa  
I used the word “letter” because not everyone knows that they’re actually called symbols or characters.

*“Re” is clearly meant to be “are”.

@Background Pony  
I suspect (with a mighty amount of guesswork) that you might happen to be referring to the fact that the kanji (not kana) 姦, which consists of three kanji 女 (woman), might in some cases mean something remotely resembling the English word “noisy”. I’m afraid I’ve yet to encounter such usage; the only words I’ve seen this character used in so far Re the words 強姦 (rape) and 姦淫 (adultery). One could possibly derive some misogynist implications from those, but I’m far too drunk on both my own ego and literal alcohol to do that right now.

But her issue wasn’t pride so much as recklessness. Pride as a downfall is almost always about a refusal to do what needs to be done, but Lightning Dust was a problem because she was willing to win at the cost of putting others in danger.

“Woman” can be 女性 (josei) or 女 (on’na). Neither looks like 迷惑, 面倒, うっとうしい, or うるさい.
 
In short, ^{[citation needed]}.

For the record:  
ほこり (hokori) Dust  
誇り (also hokori) Pride
 
Dust can also be 粉塵 (funjin), 塵 (chiri, like in WarioWare’s Chiritori which was an actual Nintendo toy)… or ダスト (dasuto).

@Background Pony  

Huh. Mildly interesting.
 
As someone who was a mildly attentive student of the subject, the Japanese sure love their word play.

For a second I thought this was the return of whipped cream anon.

Another fun fact: The Japanese letter for “Annoying” looks very similar to the letter for “Woman”.
 
(Not sure whether it was Katakana or Hirigana, though)

Well, yeah, but mostly they just say puraido because Engrish is fun.