Dajare no "dake ni"


This question is about puns, or dajare, where at the end of a sentence almost
every time there's `dake ni` to be heard. I'm having trouble understanding
what role `dake ni` has in these sentences? When translated literally it
doesn't make much sense to me. These are all from recent anime I'm watching,
for example:

  * One is about shougi (将棋): Sugu komacchau, koma dake ni
  * One pun was: juudou (柔道) is a sport where every person throws at the same angle, which is juu do (十度), juudou dake ni
  * This one was about bicycle club, where when members drive, Okane ga ochite, charin, charin, chari dake ni

So what's `dake ni` doing there? Or rather how should it be translated?




だけに is used when the result that appeared is contrary to the expectation. It's
difficult to give an exact meaning for the phrase in these contexts. だけ and
だけに can also occur in other contexts as well that are not based on this
meaning.

It is often used incorrectly by young Japanese people to make what they are
saying seem more interesting.




I think the point of this _dake ni_ is to underline the apparent meaning, the
"double meaning", by treating it as the real one. To give a really terrible
English example "He put dents in my teeth - just as you'd expect of a
dentist". It isn't that you would really expect that of a dentist, but that in
the "world" of the joke dentist means "person who makes dents".

