tako ippiki vs. ippai
in japanese, dependin' on what type of thing you're talkin' about, the counter for it changes. tatoeba (for example), the counter for thin objects such as paper is -mai; the counter for dogs, cats and most fish is -ppiki, bbiki, hhiki; the counter for glasses is -ppai, bai, hai; the counter for birds/rabbits is -wa, the counter for ika (squid) is -ppai, bai, hai. now the question is: what is the counter for tako (octopus)??? through my research which began the other night, when japanese are asked this question...the initial response, 100% of the time, is that of total bewilderment. based on the responses that i've gotten...it seems as though it's split basically 50/50 between -ppiki & -ppai
last night
met up with oshima san near maebara eki. when i got to her house, kazue san and matsui san were there. there was also this other lady, who i know but forget her name. oshima san made some hara () which was off da hook! shige san (?) made some kim chee nabe which was also quite delicious. tajima busted out the champagne and oshima san brought out some niigata nihon shuu by the name of secchubai which was really smooth. after stuffin' myself to near death, oshima san gave me a doggy bag of seki gohan which i'll probably eat later tonite. i then got on my bike and headed home.
stopped off @ ikko for some ocha and saw: hashimoto, noburu, mori, yoko and sensei there. everyone but sensei and hashimoto were pretty over.
i posed the question of ippiki vs. ippai to them and sure enough, they were stumped. yoko even called his friend who has a fish market and asked him. so the official word, from a fish market owner is.......ippai.
something to think about
so...in japan, as i mentioned before, when people get sick, but not so sick as to be bed-ridden, they wear these SARS-like masks. when you catch the flu, the japanese don't say flu or even furu, they say in furu en za which to me sounded like a really, really bad sickness at first.
just something to think about...
this mornin'
got a call pretty early this mornin'. i noticed instantly that it wasn't a japan number. when i saw the 19167877000, i knew it must be don. talked to him and jookie for a bit, mostly concernin' their trip out here (take a look @ the countdown script). don, as always, asked if i needed anything from back home. which i replied, dvds and smores pop tarts.
takahashi sensei finally came today after being sick for 3 days. he was wearin' his SARSlike mask and coughin' up a storm.
tried to pay mikami san for the obento yesterday but she refused it. she said that it was on her.
busy day, had 5 classes back to back.
well i must get goin' to my english class.
kaz out...
in japanese, dependin' on what type of thing you're talkin' about, the counter for it changes. tatoeba (for example), the counter for thin objects such as paper is -mai; the counter for dogs, cats and most fish is -ppiki, bbiki, hhiki; the counter for glasses is -ppai, bai, hai; the counter for birds/rabbits is -wa, the counter for ika (squid) is -ppai, bai, hai. now the question is: what is the counter for tako (octopus)??? through my research which began the other night, when japanese are asked this question...the initial response, 100% of the time, is that of total bewilderment. based on the responses that i've gotten...it seems as though it's split basically 50/50 between -ppiki & -ppai
last night
met up with oshima san near maebara eki. when i got to her house, kazue san and matsui san were there. there was also this other lady, who i know but forget her name. oshima san made some hara () which was off da hook! shige san (?) made some kim chee nabe which was also quite delicious. tajima busted out the champagne and oshima san brought out some niigata nihon shuu by the name of secchubai which was really smooth. after stuffin' myself to near death, oshima san gave me a doggy bag of seki gohan which i'll probably eat later tonite. i then got on my bike and headed home.
stopped off @ ikko for some ocha and saw: hashimoto, noburu, mori, yoko and sensei there. everyone but sensei and hashimoto were pretty over.
i posed the question of ippiki vs. ippai to them and sure enough, they were stumped. yoko even called his friend who has a fish market and asked him. so the official word, from a fish market owner is.......ippai.
something to think about
so...in japan, as i mentioned before, when people get sick, but not so sick as to be bed-ridden, they wear these SARS-like masks. when you catch the flu, the japanese don't say flu or even furu, they say in furu en za which to me sounded like a really, really bad sickness at first.
just something to think about...
this mornin'
got a call pretty early this mornin'. i noticed instantly that it wasn't a japan number. when i saw the 19167877000, i knew it must be don. talked to him and jookie for a bit, mostly concernin' their trip out here (take a look @ the countdown script). don, as always, asked if i needed anything from back home. which i replied, dvds and smores pop tarts.
takahashi sensei finally came today after being sick for 3 days. he was wearin' his SARSlike mask and coughin' up a storm.
tried to pay mikami san for the obento yesterday but she refused it. she said that it was on her.
busy day, had 5 classes back to back.
well i must get goin' to my english class.
kaz out...
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木曜日, 1月 22, 2004.
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