Squidward
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Woah, same. Crazy. What language do you speak?
I am in America. Of course I speak American 🙄
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AmeriKKKa! Fuck yeah!! ✝️🏈🦅
Lick my butt and such on my balls!
Also Squidward
Are there any other Squidwards I should know about???
…me
But, you're a woodwind.
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His name is "Octo Tentakel" in Dutch
but squids have 10 tentacles....
2 tentacles 8 arms
Squidward, despite his name and number of tentacles, is an octopus.
That feels like a cop out 🙁
Boy do I have some news for you about some of the other characters........
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Dutch cops out a lot on adapting punny names. Part of it is that the puns don't work, but part of it is that the Dutch are very literal with naming things.
The Count on Sesame Street? Graaf Tel. Count (title) Count (action).
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Reading the comments be like
Squiddi (pronounced Squeeddee), Italian
That’s cute!!!
Squiddibi
Jalmari Kalmari
My second language, but in Spanish he's Calamardo Tentáculos
SpongeBob is Bob Esponja
in my second heritage language, bleke fangarm. in the languages im pretty conversational in that ive learned throughout life, lula molusco or calamardo tentáculos.
calamardo tentáculos
This is great. This is his new name in my head.
Calamardo Tentáculos in latin spanish.
Skalmar in Polish. Then there's SpongeBob Kanciastoporty.
The Swedish name translated: Inkward Tentacle.
Squids are called "bläckfisk" in Swedish, literally translating to "inkfish".
شفيق
splendid
Lula molusco.
Sigmar Fálmarans 🇮🇸
Carlo in french
Kalmaras in Lithuanian 🇱🇹
Marko
pablo
Lula Molusco, Squid Mollusc if translated back to english.
章魚哥
Tintás Tunyacsáp in Hungarian, but mostly just Tunyacsáp. It translates back to Inked Lame Tentacle
Das hier ist Olaf /s
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