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