Luyện nghe bài hát Shi - Ri - to - Ri

(konishi)
Translators: cunha
introduction:

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

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

lhuga was a programme for kids, now discontinued. it had a cutting edge quality to it that assured 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 in this pizzicato album, especially this track, shiritori shimasho.

(editor's note: although theoretically for kids, the show's title is the "go-go-u ga--ru" pronounced backwards, a "go go girl" being slang for the kind of party-all-ni
Oung lady so often sung 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 train out of
O. the animated title sequence, indeed, a godzilla-size party girl rampaging through the streets, only to be felled by three young boy superheroes. other signs of the show's hipness: ba
Und featuring such bands as big drill car, and others.)

It was very difficult to translate this track because a lot of the humour and irony of the original wouldn't work in english. after I had finished 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 used much of it's as a model for the translation, unconsciously) -- all those people pla
This game in a completely subversive manner, going really crazy about it, but acting as if everything had strict rules which be properly observed. the dialogue is absurd, but everybody is
Erious what they are doing one forgets they are not actually making any sense.

My line is 'oyamada keigo? otona? hito? '

Hope you it
Maki: wa?

Ugo-ugo: ugo-ugo

M: wa?

Lhuga: lhuga

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!
Boku ga 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: honto? ja

U:

What's name?

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...
It's ok if use su too, (*)
(watermelon)

(seagull)

(killifish)

Ka. kamome.
Oops! somebody already said

I did!
I did!

so... kaki (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 already that!

We did not!
Did we?

We did too!

No we did not!

I we did...

Well then I

on! su!

(skunk)

Ku? (bear)

Ma... (duckweed)

Mo...
Mori! (forest)

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

You can
If you know

Ri... I

me? ri?
Ri... I can't think of

I one

ok I pass

(wild whale)

Yume no


no
no
Shiritori yo!
ga
ni
Iimasu
wa


Desu ne

Shuuru-kun,

Haaai!

Te: oyamada

To: keigo?

Te: desu.

To:

Te: desu.
So iu

Shiritori yo.
Dozo!

To: go ne?
no yugure

S: desu ne.

Te: kirei 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
Tendon

S: ru? ru ne? ru...

Ru ru ru ru ru...

Te: wa ikemasen

S: da ne
(ruubii)

Te:
ni natta
To iun
Janai ka?

S: desu.

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

(jaketo) mo


No i!

To: I na no?

Te: otona no
Desu

To: janai!
Inu no no

no shiritori!

And now the dream
(*)

And
Will
for grownups!
I say
The

And

And
In order

Ok!

keigo (cornelius)

Cornelius? that?
A

A grownup. precisely.

You mean 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.

ends 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 don't
He actually has

He too.

Nu?
This is to be a shiritori
for grownups right?

Yep.
This is
For grownups.

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

I know. the atmosphere.

so wet!

is
A
for grownups.

I wonder what he by wet!

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

I'm
Te?
Ten... don...
Tabeta
(did you fish and chips for lunch? )

Ta...
Tamaru misuzu (a name)

I wonder if this
Complies with the 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.

Ruby ends
A bii.
no tsuita
mo
kamoshirenai!
(I wonder what a
beads
do for me)

No! not I again!

I said that because
is a shiritori for grownups.

Well my answer goes almost saying.
Inu no mawari-san no no shiritori!
(the shiritori for grownups
Being by the policeman with a dog)