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Re: Word games!

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, August 24, 2001, 22:39
"Karapcik, Mike" <Karapcik@M...> wrote:
> This reminds me of a Japanese I used to play in Japanese class in > college. It's name roughly means "tail-grabbing" or "butt-grabbing" > (shiri-tsuka?).
I think it's "shiri-tori" (ass-grabbing, as my colleagues called it).
> Japanese language is based on a CV silibary, the exception being
the
> syllable "n".
Yes...a typical game might go: ringo (apple) -> gokiburi (cockroach) -> rippa (excellent) -> pantsu (pants) -> tsuma (wife) etc I believe that you can't say a word that ends in syllabic n because no words start with it. Imperative

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Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>