Current Events > Her name is Bloomers, not Bulma.

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DocileOrangeCup
07/13/20 12:29:47 AM
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HylianFox
07/13/20 12:37:36 AM
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DocileOrangeCup posted...
so goku is goke

Sun Wukong

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Kami_no_Kami
07/13/20 1:03:34 AM
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The Popo
07/13/20 1:13:31 AM
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Kami_no_Kami posted...



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Touch
07/13/20 1:13:53 AM
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Trumpo
07/13/20 1:33:17 AM
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Whoa, a Renault 5 Turbo I thought farmer with a shotgun's Chevrolet was the only real life vehicle in the series.
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Scotty_Rogers
07/13/20 1:34:23 AM
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The Popo posted...

Toriyama only spelled it that way because his understanding of English was poor.

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SomeLikeItHoth
07/13/20 1:47:21 AM
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Demon Man Boo!

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ModLogic
07/13/20 1:48:40 AM
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The Popo
07/13/20 1:54:38 AM
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Scotty_Rogers posted...
Toriyama only spelled it that way because his understanding of English was poor.

Rumor has it thats why he wrote the story in Japanese, too. {citation needed}

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Illuminoius
07/13/20 11:27:17 AM
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Scotty_Rogers posted...
Toriyama only spelled it that way because his understanding of English was poor.
intentional corruption of english words is extremely common
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HylianFox
07/13/20 11:29:33 AM
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This is also why context is hugely important when doing translations and localizations

it's easy to look at "Buruma" by itself and go "okay, we can render that as Bulma" without looking at the bigger picture as to why she's called that

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HylianFox
07/13/20 11:31:02 AM
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Scotty_Rogers posted...
Toriyama only spelled it that way because his understanding of English was poor.

Illuminoius posted...
intentional corruption of english words is extremely common

again, this goes back to the whole Yoshi/Yossy thing

there are number of reasons why Toriyama may have chosen "Bulma" for the English spelling

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Scotty_Rogers
07/13/20 3:53:13 PM
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Illuminoius posted...
intentional corruption of english words is extremely common

Except it wasn't intentional, as he spells her name as Bloomers in the pic I posted. He just didn't know how to spell it before.

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closetjpopfan
07/13/20 4:40:45 PM
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Thank you, this makes sense. I will still probably never watch a full episode of Dragon Ball, but I like knowing this.
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