Re: Alphabet (you're a fish?)

On Sunday, 4 November 2001 05.28, Nik Taylor wrote:

[Thanks for all that's been snipped]

> > Apropos of weird statements in Japanese, I was once forced to construct
> > the sentence 'rajo* wa oishi** desu' in Year Eight.
>
> Rajio wa oishii desu, if you're trying to say "The radio is delicious",
> but why are you trying to say that?  :-)
Because we had a bunch of adjectives and a bunch of nouns and had to make
basic sentences from them, and I was last. Every other sensible combination
had been done, so I was left with 'The radio is delicious' (and a very good
radio it was too).

Tristan