Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 1995 03:57:31 -1000
From:	motsubo@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (Masatoshi Otsubo)
Message-Id: <4c0s4b$97r@webosaka.threeWeb.ad.jp>
Organization: Aoba Institute Of Applied Kiteology  :-)
Subject: Re: Trivia Question #8 - counting in japanese

In article <4beo3r$gql@ednet1.osl.or.gov>, David Gomberg wrote: 

> Kaku is the Japanese word for a kite with corners. Kaku-dako, 
> or simply kaku is what we normally (and erroneously) call an edo.
> 
> Rok is the Japanese word for six.  Sun is three, she is four, 
> go is five.

Just can't resist...  Forgive my flying off at a tangent.

Itch is one; knee two; city seven; hatch eight; cue nine; jew ten;
jew-itch eleven; jew-knee twelve;...; jew-cue nineteen; knee-jew twenty;
knee-jew-itch twenty-one;...;she-jew-go forty-five;...; and then 
cue-jew-cue ninety-nine at last.  Thank you for your cooperation.
Also zero is zero in japanese - or a vintage fighter from the WWII.

Sorry for my rambling on. 

A Happy New Year, come what may in '96(cue-jew-rok)!  :-)

Masatoshi
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Masatoshi Otsubo/E-mail: motsubo@osk.threewebnet.or.jp
Life is short, and the Art long; the Internet time-consuming...
Go fly a kite, as the Bard said, "the play's the thing."



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Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:04:29 -1000
From:	samef@shout.net (Sam Francis)
Message-Id: <4c13mv$8gh@treflan.shout.net>
Organization: Shouting Ground Technologies
Subject: Re: Trivia Question #8 - counting in japanese

motsubo@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (Masatoshi Otsubo) wrote:
clip:
>Just can't resist...  Forgive my flying off at a tangent.
>Itch is one; knee two; city seven; hatch eight; cue nine; jew ten;
>jew-itch eleven; jew-knee twelve;...; jew-cue nineteen; knee-jew twenty;
>knee-jew-itch twenty-one;...;she-jew-go forty-five;...; 
clip:
I just gotta ask...is it 'rock' or 'roke'?
Sam



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Date:	Sun, 31 Dec 1995 03:23:03 -1000
From:	motsubo@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (Masatoshi Otsubo)
Message-Id: <4c62rn$eis@webosaka.threeWeb.ad.jp>
Organization: Aoba Institute Of Applied Kiteology  :-)
Subject: Re: Trivia Question #8 - counting in japanese

Hi Sam,

In article <4c13mv$8gh@treflan.shout.net>, samef@shout.net wrote:
>clip:
>I just gotta ask...is it 'rock' or 'roke'?

IMHO, 'lock' is closest what we pronounce, though 'roku' 
is the correct spelling.
Hope this has answered your question.
-- 
Masatoshi Otsubo/E-mail: motsubo@osk.threewebnet.or.jp
Life is short, and the Art long; the Internet time-consuming...
Go fly a kite, as the Bard said, "the play's the thing."



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