I wonder how prevalent puns are in other languages, it seems they are extremely prevalent in English or at least in British English but hardly at all in Spanish.
I've seen/heard some in German but not sure how prevalent.
Tall buildings tend to omit floors 4, 14, etc., the way tall buildings in the US often omit floor 13. Amusingly, Chinese building often omit 13 as well. So you might be on floor 15 and only really be on floor 12 because 4, 13, and 14 are all left out.
Less dire numeric associations are 55 for crying (pronounced “wuwu”) and 88 for bye-bye (“baba”).
Thank you for the information on Brazilian puns, however I cannot let someone call an empanada a "tart", a tart must be open, whereas an empanada must be covered.
– ¿Para qué sirve una barriga vacía? – Em, ¡Pa' nada!"