Re: missy elliot

From:    Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote :
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 11:13:20PM +0100, daniel andreasson
wrote:
> Okay. This has been bothering me for some time now. In the
> beginning of "Get Your Freak On" with Missy Elliot, there
> is this phrase in some language I don't know what it is.
> I made a transcription of it. Does anyone know? What does
> it mean?
>
> [kU'rEkara"mIn:adE mE "tSEktSE o "dOt:E saLa"go saLa"go]
I heard it once at a friend's house; everyone thought I was
nuts for trying
to figure out the words. It's Japanese, at least the first
part, <korekara
minna de>.
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wow. i had read that line and couldn't figure that much.
"kurekara" and "korekara" sound so different.

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["tSEktSE] definitely would NOT be Japanese, as [tS] doesn't
appear before [E] or [e].
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that's the way some people (bad boys, yakuza) would
pronounce "mechakucha" (making a mess, messily).

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I'll have to find the song again now that you've
reminded me, and listen closely. Anyway, <korekara> means
"now" or (IIRC)
"from now on;" <minna> means "everybody;" <de> is a
postpositive particle
usually meaning "in" or "with" (instrumental; i.e. "by way
of something"). I
can't tell which <de> it would be without the rest of the
context...
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"minnade" is a fixed locution "together".
o "dOt:E then must be "odotte" (dancing)
"sarago" is maybe "sawagu" (to make noise, to make a noisy
mess). that would be :

Korekara minnade mechakucha odotte sawagu sawagu!
And now everybody move their body and make a mess! (o yee
suuingu beibi! rokku!)

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> L is some mix between [l] and [r] and it sounds labialized
> and velarized. Odd sound.
Japanese /r/ varies between [l]-like and [r]-like sounds.
I'm not sure if
it's normally velarized or labialized, but it definitely has
a lot of
variation.
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Mathias