unintentional pun theater

[chronovore]

Just now in the office, I accidentally committed this offense: "Kona島コーヒーの味は優しいすぎるです、ね。でもコナコーヒーは大体こんなモンです。"

Christ, it's too early on a Monday for this level of pun-ishment, even if I'm the one doing it.

Comments

[lunablack.livejournal.com]

pls to explain for the totally clueless?

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

It's just a bad pun: I wanted to say "Kona coffee is usually like this" but the words I used are phonetically similar to saying "Kona coffee is usually from Kona" so my conversational partner thought I was messing with him. I'm happy my Japanese is at least good enough that I caught it right as it was leaving my mouth, so as it hit home and the guy was about to wince, I was already saying "That wasn't an intentional pun... sorry."