Does「ペーペー」and the "PayPay" digital wallet sound like a ダジャレ? Isn't that weird for marketing?


"PayPay" is a smartphone digital wallet used in Japan. Yet, 「ペーペー」is also a
slang term for the 肩書き of 新入社員。I always said my 肩書き was either 「ペーペー」or
「カバン持ち」。

I am so confused.  
(1) Is "ペーペー" really, in fact, a rarely used slang term and a ダジャレ does not
immediately "click" to form with "PayPay" in the mind of native speakers?  
(2) In English, I do pronounce "PayPay" with a deeper, "hard A", and so
"PayPay" in English does not sound like "ペーペー" in Japanese, but Japanese does
not have "hard vowels".

What's going on? Is "PayPay" and "ペーペー" a ダジャレ to native speakers? How do they
feel about it? Doesn't it effect the marketing of the digital wallet? (it
sounds very weird to me...)




You can check the pronunciation of ペイペイ on the [official YouTube
channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1uAWQyJ8wuTJCuNntBO6MQ). I can
clearly hear the イ sound. ペイペイ【HLLL】 (PayPay) and ペーペー【LHHL】 ("novice") sound
very different both in terms of the vowel and the accent. I did think it was a
funny name, but it never occurred to me that it might be a pun.




You can check the pronunciation of ペイペイ on the [official YouTube
channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1uAWQyJ8wuTJCuNntBO6MQ). I can
clearly hear the イ sound. ペイペイ【HLLL】 (PayPay) and ペーペー【LHHL】 ("novice") sound
very different both in terms of the vowel and the accent. I did think it was a
funny name, but it never occurred to me that it might be a pun.

