D. Tse wrote:
>"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".....
>
>I believe that you can't say a word that ends in syllabic n because no
words
>start with it.
Just a thought: is it possible that words with final /n/ are all ultimately
of Chinese or at least foreign origin??