Re: Word games!

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Yoon Ha Lee [mailto:yl112@CORNELL.EDU]
| Subject: Re: Word games!
|
| On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 10:44 AM, Karapcik, Mike wrote:
| >         If a person blurts out a word that ends in "-n", that person
| > is eliminated, since no Japanese words end in "-n". Someone is also
| > eliminated if they cannot think of a word quickly enough.
| >
| Amusing.  :-)  But should that be "since no Japanese words *start* in
| [syllabic] '-n'"?  Just wondering.

        Ummm, Ok... I meant to say "No Japanese words _start_ with the
independent 'n' syllable (not to infer the na-gyo)."
        I'm sorry, mea culpa, mi bedauxras! I was up till midnight last
night reading about Linear B and Linear A.... (For fun....)

| >         Another "word game" is "name the counter for...". In Japanese,
|
| God.  <wince>  I wonder if Korean has a similar name, since it certainly
| has a similar insane system of counters that my mom tried and failed to
| impart to me last winter.  On the bright side, it would be a good teaching
| game.... YHL

        I think Sensei thought this would make the Japanese counting method
"fun". I didn't work very well.