Talk:Lixis Korosume/@comment-3415109-20120107023400/@comment-1949750-20120110062453

Wrong. the word that you had in mind is actuall spelled Sutaa. With a extra a.

However, you're right. Sutaa is the romanji version of the word, star.

But Gen0 is also right but he is more correct than you. Hoshi is the Japanese word for star.

But techinically, they are both Japanese words for Star.

You see romanji is actually the application of the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language.

So in other words, some Japanese words can have a foreign version.

For example. Iron

In JPN, Iron is kurogane, tetsu, or tetsubun. But when you use romanji, iron in Japanese turns into aian. Sounds familiar to the enlgish term, iron when you sound it out?

Also, don't forget that words in Japanese can have different meanings such as ame.

Ame can mean rain or candy. They are both pronounced the same but different symbols.

雨= Ame = rain

飴 = Ame = candy

Hence the pun when the strawhat crew encountered the candy rain after the Thriller Bark arc.

To address your issue about hoshi being spore.

星 = Hoshi = star 胞子 = Houshi = Spore

you're little off there. the pronunciation for spore has a U in it. As for star

スター sutaa- star (romanji version)

星 = hoshi = star (Kanji/ hiragana version)

Kanji, hiragana, katagana are the characters used in the Japanese writing system. For romanji such スター, they use katakana to convert English words to Japanese. In other words, foreign based words.

As for kanji and hiragana, those are Japanese-origin words.

Also, I already claimed the name to the Hoshi Hoshi no Mi so it would be awkward to have two Devil Fruits with the same pronunciations