Luyện nghe bài hát Shi - Ri - to - Ri

(konishi)
Translators: andrei
Translator's

"shiritori" is a japanese game. the first player says a word, the second player must say a word beginning with the last (syllable) of the first player's word, the third playe
T say a word beginning the last character of the second player's word... and so on. the players are not supposed to say the same word twice.

This consists of two shiritori matches: the first one features maki-chan and the two kids from ugo-ugo lhuga. the second one features other characters from the programme.

Ugo-ugo lhuga was a programme for kids, now discontinued. it had a cutting edge quality to it that it became a legend among kids and adults who watched it. it often featured very surreal
Sketches. some of the crazyness of the programme was immortalised in this pizzicato album, especially this track, shimasho.

(editor's note: although theoretically for kids, the show's title is the phrase "go-go-u ga--ru" pronounced backwards, a "go go girl" being for the kind of party-all-ni
Oung lady so often sung about in p5 songs. this was a hint that the show was also aimed at the hip young party-goer returning home at the break of dawn, having just caught the first out of
O. the animated title sequence, indeed, featured a godzilla-size party girl rampaging through the streets, only to be felled by three boy superheroes. other signs of the show's hipness: ba
Und posters featuring such bands as big car, and others.)

It was very difficult to translate this track because a lot of the humour and irony of the original just wouldn't work in english. after I had the translation and re-read it, I realised
Ort of reminded me of the tea party with the mad hatter from alice in wonderland (and I certainly much of it's language as a model for the translation, unconsciously) -- all those people pla
This game in a completely subversive manner, going really crazy about it, but as if everything had strict rules which should be properly observed. the dialogue is absurd, but everybody is
about what they are doing one forgets they are not actually making any sense.

My favourite line is keigo? otona? hito? '

Hope you it
namae wa?

Ugo-ugo: ugo-ugo

M: wa?

Lhuga: desu

M: ja

Shiritori
ka?

U: ii yo

L: ii yo

M: ja
kara...
Saru!

U:
(ruuretto)

L: to?

M: to?

U:

L:

M:

U:

L: mi?

M: zu? mmm...
Su ii no ne? (*)

U:

L:

M: ka. kamome.
yutta? (**)

U: yutta yo!
ga yutta yo

M: so ka? ka... kaki.

U:

L:

M: ko...
(muzukashii)

U:

L: e?

M:

U:

L: ki?

M:

U: ya... (***)

L:

M:

U: ku...

L:

M:

U:

L: ko?

M: ma?
(manmosu)

U: su? suzume!

L: yutta!

U: mm
yo ne!

L: yutta!

U: yo!

M: yo ne...

U: ah ja

L: su da yo su!

U: (sukanku)

L: ku?

M: ma...

U: mo...
da yo mori

L: ri? ka yo
Ri ri...
yo ne

M: shitemo
Iin da yo

L: ri...

M: ga ri?
Ri... nai yo ne ri.

U: wa aru

M: ja pass

U:

What's your

It's

And

It's

Ok so

Shall we

Ok

Ok

Ok so start
Saru!
(monkey)

(roulette)

To?

To? (red pepper)

(deer)

(tortoise)

(spectacles)

(mouse)

Mi? (worm)

Zu? mmm...
ok if use su too, right? (*)
(watermelon)

(seagull)

(killifish)

Ka. kamome.
Oops! somebody already said

I did!
I did!

Really? so... (persimmon)

(fox)

(cat)

Ko... (puppy)
(this is so difficult)

(colour book)

E? (chimney)

(moon)

(woodpecker)

Ki? (pheasant)

(automobile)

Ya... (spear)

(science)

(chemistry)

Ku... (chestnut)

(squirrel)

(sparrow)

Menko (a game)

(horse)

Ma?
(mammoth)

Su? suzume!

We said that!

We did not!
Did we?

We did too!

No we did not!

I we did...

Well I lose

on! su!

(skunk)

Ku? (bear)

Ma... (duckweed)

Mo...
Mori! (forest)

Ri? no, not ri again!
Ri ri... we said
Risu

You can
If you don't

Ri... I

me? ri?
Ri... I think of anything

I one

Really? ok I

(wild whale)

Yume no


no
no
Shiritori yo!
ga
ni
Iimasu
wa


Desu ne

Shuuru-kun,

Haaai!

Te: keigo

To: oyamada

Te: desu.

To:

Te: desu.
So iu

Shiritori yo.
Dozo!

To: go ne?
no yugure

S: desu ne.

Te: desu ne

To: ufufufu!

S: tea
(remon tii)

Te: nan
ka?
tea wa?

S: so ne.

Te: tea
no I no
ga hai!
no
nan desu.
no.
kawaii.

To: i?
Inu no
no

S: nu

Te:
ka?

To: mochiron!

S: nu?
no
Shiritori

Te: no

yo!

S: nu ne?
ne
Kore wa
na
ne
Fuinki ne

Te: (**)

S: ne

Te: no

ne

To: nan daro!

Te: ne e
no te
Otona no
Desu.
mo
Ko iu
Ierun yo

To: wa
te?


(***)

S: ta...
Tamaru

Te: ko iu ga
Ii no
tabeta

S: ru? ru ne? ru...

Ru ru ru ru ru...

Te: utatte wa

S: da ne
(ruubii)

Te:
O-kai ni
To iun
desu ka?

S: desu.

Te: bi to
De bi ne?
(biizu) no

(jaketo) mo


No i!

To: I na no?

Te: no shiritori
kara

To: janai!
Inu no no

no shiritori!

And now the dream
(*)

And
Will
for grownups!
I say
The

And

And
In order

Ok!

Oyamada (cornelius)

Cornelius? that?
A

A grownup. precisely.

You like a person?

A yes.
is
the point.
We're to play
Some here.

Ok so go.
Gogo no (twilight in the afternoon)

Oh so lovely!

lovely.

He he he.

Remon tii
(could I have some lemon )

I
You are fond of
Of tea

You say I am yes.

Chodai with an i
So
ga hai (ikuko-chan is...)
is an

Of mine.
She's cute.

I?
Inu no mawari-san no
(the puppy belongs to
The with a dog)

Nu

You mean
He has one?

He too.

Nu?
is supposed to be a shiritori
Strictly for right?

Yep.
This is
For grownups.

Ok so nu it is.
ne (it's so wet!)
This is
A remark.
I don't mean by that.
just... for the atmosphere.

I know. the atmosphere.

so wet!

is
A
for grownups.

I what he meant by wet!

Ne e kite
(hey you come here)
is a shiritori
For grownups.
Me too
I can say
This of thing.

I'm
Te?
Ten... don...
o-hiru
(did you have fish and chips for )

Ta...
Tamaru (a person's name)

I wonder if utterance
Complies the rules of the game.
and chips?
For

Oh I'm so sorry! not ta! tis ru

Ru... (sings) ru ru ru ru...

is not allowed!

It now is it.
Well... ok... (ruby).

You
You have
A lot of
Of

It's my stone.

ends with
A bii.
Biizu no
mo
kamoshirenai!
(I wonder a jacket
beads
do for me)

No! not I again!

I said that because
is a shiritori for grownups.

Well my answer goes without saying.
Inu no no otona no shiritori!
(the strictly for grownups
played by the policeman with a dog)