re: The Official DragonBall Thread....est 2012

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And why does DBZ love vegetables so much?

Vegeta+Tarble=Vegetable

Fasha is a play on the word parsley.

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The name is a Japanese anagram of yasai (??), which is Japanese for vegetable, followed by the suffix jin (? or ??) which is a Japanese suffix for person. Saiyajin may also be a play on Yajin, the Japanese word for wildman. Essentially, "Saiyan" is a more direct English translation of the word. In the Japanese, "Saiyan" is pronounced "Sigh-ya-jin", while in the English dubs, it is pronounced "Say-an".
The Saiyans (such as Raditz, Kakarot, Nappa, Paragus, Broly, or Bardock) have names that are pun on various vegetables.

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