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 with the last character (syllable) of the first player's word, the third
T say a word beginning with the last of the second player's 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 kids from ugo-ugo lhuga. the second one features other 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. of the crazyness of the programme was immortalised in this pizzicato album, especially 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 hint that the show was also aimed at the hip young party-goer returning home at the break of dawn, having just caught the train out of
O. the animated title sequence, indeed, featured a 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 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 just wouldn't work in english. I had finished the translation and re-read it, I realised
Ort of reminded me of the tea with the mad hatter from alice in wonderland (and I certainly used much of it's language as a model for the translation, unconsciously) -- all those people pla
This game in a completely subversive manner, going crazy about it, but acting as if everything had strict rules which should 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 is 'oyamada keigo? otona? hito? '

Hope you 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...
Mori da yo

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: honto? ja

U:

What's your

It's

And

lhuga

Ok so

Shall we

Ok

Ok

Ok so I'll
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)

(a japanese 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 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 can't of anything

I one

ok I pass

(wild whale)

Yume no


no
no
Shiritori yo!
ga
ni
Iimasu
wa


Desu ne

Shuuru-kun,

Haaai!

Te: keigo

To: keigo?

Te: desu.

To:

Te: desu.
So iu

Shiritori yo.
Dozo!

To: go ne?
Gogo no

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
desu 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:
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: otona no
Desu

To: janai!
Inu no no

no shiritori!

And now the team
(*)

And
play
for grownups!
I say
The

And

And
In this

Ok!

Oyamada (cornelius)

what's that?
A

A grownup. precisely.

You mean like a

A yes.
is
the point.
We're trying to
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 quite 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 that belongs to
The with a dog)

Nu

You don't
He actually has

He too.

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

Yep.
is strictly
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 wonder he meant by wet!

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

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

Ta...
Tamaru misuzu (a name)

I wonder if this
Complies with the of the game.
Fish and
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

my lucky stone.

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

No! not I again!

I just said that
This is a for grownups.

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