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[Hiroshi Fukuda]

Merry Christmas! The following is completely nonsense.

1. Can you guess the meaning of the following sentences? Each is a
complete sentence, not a word :-)
a. Niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu.
b. Waniwaniwaniwainai.
The following English sentence is my patent: Bears bear bare bears.

2. Tongue twister
a. Nama mugi nama gome nama tamago.
Raw wheat, raw rice, raw egg.
b. Tokyo-to tokkyo kyoka-kyoku.
Tokyo metropolitan patent-permission bureau.
c. Oaya-ya, oya ni oayamari.
Oaya(girl's name), beg perdon to your parents.

3. Palindrome
a. Da-n-su ga su-n-da.
Dance was over.
b. Ta-ke-ya-bu ya-ke-ta.
Bamboo bush was burned down.
c. Wa-ta-shi ma-ke-ma-shi-ta-wa.
I lost (the game).

Have nice winter holidays.
/ Hiroshi

[Fred H. Bremmer]

I've heard the first funny sentence before, but it was a little bit
different. When I heard it, it was:

Niwa-san no niwa ni wa niwa tori ga ni wa imasu.
Mr Niwa's garden in, chickens two are.
(In Mr Niwa's garden there are two chickens.)

Is this correct?

Fred

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[Mark Crispin]

In article <901225030...@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> NIH...@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>1. Can you guess the meaning of the following sentences? Each is a
> complete sentence, not a word :-)
> a. Niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu.

= niwa ni ha niwa, niwatori ga iru
"There are two chickens in the garden."

I know the longer form:
uraniwaniwaniwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu
= uraniwa hi ha niwa, niwa ni ha niwa, niwatori ga iru
"There are two chickens in the backyard and two in the garden."

> b. Waniwaniwaniwainai.

"The crocodile is not in the garden."

How about:
sumomomomomomomomomomomomonimoiroiroaru.
kishanokishsagakishadekishashita.

What fun!

_____ | ____ ___|___ /__ Mark ("Gaijin") Crispin "Gaijin! Gaijin!"
_|_|_ -|- || __|__ / / R90/6 pilot, DoD #0105 "Gaijin ha doko?"
|_|_|_| |\-++- |===| / / Atheist & Proud "Niichan ha gaijin."
--|-- /| |||| |___| /\ (206) 842-2385/543-5762 "Chigau. Omae ha gaijin."
/|\ | |/\| _______ / \ FAX: (206) 543-3909 "Iie, boku ha nihonjin."
/ | \ | |__| / \ / \M...@CAC.Washington.EDU "Souka. Yappari gaijin!"
Hee, dakedo UNIX nanka wo tsukatte, umaku ikanaku temo shiranai yo.

[Masumi Abe]

This is the version I've heard before.

Ura-niwa niwa 2-wa, niwa niwa 2-wa, niwatori ga iru.

or

ura + 7*(niwa) + torigairu.

Meaning:
In the back yard, there are two,
and in the (front) yard, there are two hens (roosters, chickens).

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[Hiroshi Fukuda]

Fred says:
Niwa-san no niwa ni wa niwatori ga ni wa imasu.

This would be correct 'cause my sentence "Niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu"
is again my innovation :-) But don't you think the latter is more
simplified by just repeating the fragment "niwa" ? Bye.
/ Hiroshi

[Masumi Abe]

In article <13...@milton.u.washington.edu> m...@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>In article <901225030...@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> NIH...@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>

>How about:
> sumomomomomomomomomomomomonimoiroiroaru.

sumomo-mo momo, momo-mo momo, momo-nimo iroiro aru
Plum is a kind of peach. Peach is also a kind of peach.
There are many different kind of peaches.

> kishanokishsagakishadekishashita.
>
kisha(your company)-no kisha(reporter)-ga kisha(train)-de
kisha(back to his office)-shita

How about:
---
< each *mark represent this kanji (child)
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_|

**no******no**** (This is a word play, and not the official way
of writing this sentence in Japanese.)
Meaning: A child of cat is a kitty, a child of lion is a cub.

hint: There are four different pronunciations (ko, shi, ji, ne)
of this character used here.

--Masumi

>What fun!
>
> _____ | ____ ___|___ /__ Mark ("Gaijin") Crispin "Gaijin! Gaijin!"
> _|_|_ -|- || __|__ / / R90/6 pilot, DoD #0105 "Gaijin ha doko?"
>|_|_|_| |\-++- |===| / / Atheist & Proud "Niichan ha gaijin."
> --|-- /| |||| |___| /\ (206) 842-2385/543-5762 "Chigau. Omae ha gaijin."
> /|\ | |/\| _______ / \ FAX: (206) 543-3909 "Iie, boku ha nihonjin."
> / | \ | |__| / \ / \M...@CAC.Washington.EDU "Souka. Yappari gaijin!"
>Hee, dakedo UNIX nanka wo tsukatte, umaku ikanaku temo shiranai yo.

[Nick Szabo]

In article <901225030...@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> NIH...@mitvma.mit.edu writes:

>Merry Christmas! The following is completely nonsense.

Au contrair! Tongue twisters, palindromes, etc. are very good and fun
for practicing my Nihongo and when I get them right, it gets my confidence
up! Can we have more please?

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Embrace Change... Keep the Values... Hold Dear the Laughter...

[Scott Horne]

In article <20...@crg5.UUCP> sz...@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
>In article <901225030...@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> NIH...@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
<<Merry Christmas! The following is completely nonsense.
<
<Au contrair! Tongue twisters, palindromes, etc. are very good and fun
<for practicing my Nihongo and when I get them right, it gets my confidence
<up! Can we have more please?

Fun they may be, but they won't help you practise your Japanese. Don't get
me wrong; I like them, too, but I don't harbour the delusion that they'll
help me learn the language.

--Scott

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