ハナクソの秘密をそっと話くそう Is it just a pun on 話そう?


The character just says out of the blue (in order to lighten the mood) :

> ハナクソの秘密をそっと話{はな}くそう!! [with dots above the seconds は、な、く and そ]

Is it just a pun on 話そう？ => Let's talk discretely about the secret of the
snot!!

Like, I don't know, if there was a verb "to sno" in English meaning "to speak"
and the speaker voluntarily pronounced it "snoT" instead of "sno" : Let's snoT
discretely about the secret of the snot!!




Grammatically correct would be 話そう, without the く. But in order to make it
similar to ハナクソ (similar words tend to be funny, right?), only one single
hiragana く is added. Your analogy in English fits this perfectly. The く
functions the same way as your T in snoT.




Grammatically correct would be 話そう, without the く. But in order to make it
similar to ハナクソ (similar words tend to be funny, right?), only one single
hiragana く is added. Your analogy in English fits this perfectly. The く
functions the same way as your T in snoT.

