Why "Tullece" and not something like "Turlece"?

[MasenkoHA]

...how? It's got the "le", the "tu" and the "ce" from "lettuce" right there, with the double consonant replaced with an r to inducate the now enlongated vowel sound that wasn't part of the source word.

Because there's no "r" in lettuce.

There's no ー in レタス either, so...?

Nobody would look at the word Turles and say "Oh its supposed to be like lettuce!

The double ll in Tullece does the job

[Adamant]

Because there's no "r" in lettuce.

There's no ー in レタス either, so...?

Nobody would look at the word Turles and say "Oh its supposed to be like lettuce!

The double ll in Tullece does the job

Okay, but we're not talking about "Turles" here, we're talking about "Turlece"?

[MasenkoHA]

There's no ー in レタス either, so...?

Nobody would look at the word Turles and say "Oh its supposed to be like lettuce!

The double ll in Tullece does the job

Okay, but we're not talking about "Turles" here, we're talking about "Turlece"?

The same thing applies

[TheGreatness25]

There's no ー in レタス either, so...?

Nobody would look at the word Turles and say "Oh its supposed to be like lettuce!

The double ll in Tullece does the job

Okay, but we're not talking about "Turles" here, we're talking about "Turlece"?

The chōonpu (ー) does not signify that there's an R there. For example, I think that you'll agree that "ベジータ" shouldn't be adapted as "Vegerta."

[MyVisionity]

The chōonpu (ー) does not signify that there's an R there. For example, I think that you'll agree that "ベジータ" shouldn't be adapted as "Vegerta."

No offense, but it sounds like you may have a misunderstanding of how elongation and romanizing operates.

Typically a-vowel kana, when elongated, are indeed often romanized using the letter R. This is not the case for i-vowel kana, such as in your bejiita example. That just wouldn't make any sense, phonetically.

[MCDaveG]

There is also no R in “Bejiita”, but there is one in “Retasu/Taaresu”.

So clearly Turles was a way to keep the Japanese pronounciation, but Tullece is actually more pun appropriate name in english.

[Shorty GZ2]

I grew up on Turles & still use it even though Tullece actually gets the pun across. The OP's rationale does make sense though; Turlece looks and sounds alright, "Leturce" instead of "Lettuce" aside.

[DiloVortexx]

a point already accentuated by everyone else in the thread but.. yea.. tullece fits the pun of lettuce much more + i also prefer the spelling of it compared to turles bc like.. your honour what the FUCK is a turles JSDFJFHGJDH (if i didnt know any better id misread his name as turtles.. i guess he actually trained under roshi yall /j)

i also like the idea of spelling tarble/table as taable : o so you have vegeta and taable,, i think it fits in well with the naming conventions saiyans have lmao *CASUALLY STARTS USING THAT*