Luyện nghe bài hát Shi - Ri - to - Ri

(konishi)
Translators: andrei
introduction:

"shiritori" is a japanese game. the 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 with the last character 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 lhuga. the second one features other characters from the programme.

Ugo-ugo lhuga was a programme for kids, now discontinued. it had a cutting 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 phrase "go-go-u ga--ru" pronounced backwards, a "go go girl" slang 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 caught the first train out of
O. the animated title sequence, indeed, featured a godzilla-size party girl rampaging through the streets, only to be felled by young 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. 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 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 acting as if everything had rules which should be properly observed. the dialogue is absurd, but everybody is
Erious about 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: 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!
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...
Mori da yo

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 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! already said that?

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...

then I lose

on! su!

(skunk)

Ku? (bear)

Ma... (duckweed)

Mo...
Mori! (forest)

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

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: oyamada

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
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: no shiritori
kara

To: janai!
Inu no no

no shiritori!

And now the dream
(*)

And
Will
for grownups!
I say
The

And

And
In this

Ok!

Oyamada (cornelius)

Cornelius? what's
A

A grownup. precisely.

You like 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 tea? )

I
You are quite 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 don't
He actually has

He too.

Nu?
is supposed to be a shiritori
Strictly for grownups

Yep.
is strictly
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 what he meant 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...
o-hiru
(did you have and chips for lunch? )

Ta...
Tamaru misuzu (a 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 bought
A lot of
Of

It's my stone.

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

No! not I again!

I just said because
is a shiritori for grownups.

Well my answer goes almost saying.
Inu no no otona no shiritori!
(the shiritori strictly for
Being played by the with a dog)