Luyện nghe bài hát Shi - Ri - to - Ri

(konishi)
Translators: cunha
Translator's

"shiritori" is a japanese game. the first player says a word, the second player must say a word beginning 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 word... and so on. the players are not supposed to say the same word twice.

This track consists of two shiritori matches: the first one features maki-chan and the two 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 assured it became a legend among kids and adults who it. it often featured very surreal
Sketches. some of the crazyness of the programme was immortalised in this pizzicato album, this track, shiritori 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 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 posters featuring such 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 just wouldn't work in english. 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 language as a 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 favourite line is 'oyamada otona? hito? '

you like it
Maki: wa?

ugo-ugo desu

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!
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: pass
Iin da yo

L: ri...

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

U: wa aru

M: ja pass

U:

What's your

ugo-ugo

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 said that?

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 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
desu 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: 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: no shiritori
Desu

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)

what's that?
A

A grownup. precisely.

You mean a person?

A yes.
is
the point.
We're trying to
shiritori 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 ends an i
So
ga hai (ikuko-chan is...)
is an

Of mine.
She's cute.

I?
Inu no no koinu
(the puppy that to
The policeman 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 anything 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 come here)
This is a
For grownups.
Me too
I can say
This of thing.

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

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

I if this utterance
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 bought
A lot of
Of

my lucky stone.

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

No! not I again!

I said that because
is a shiritori for grownups.

Well my goes almost without saying.
Inu no mawari-san no no shiritori!
(the shiritori for grownups
played by the policeman with a dog)