Re: Tongue-twisters: was Re: NG for gaijin topics. (English)

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From: Chiaki Ishikawa
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 09:17

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In article <MARKD.92Jul19150743@stallman.csl.sj.nec.com> markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:

>   Some of my favorite English tongue twisters are below, but it seems like
>   when I tried to teach them to Japanese people, they didn't have any
>   trouble because they break the syllables up differently an make slight
>   changes to the pronounciation.
	Never thought of that. What about "Betty bought a bitter ...",
or "Peter Piper picked ...". When I learned them from Canadian
students, I DID had difficulty. Just memorizing them was tough apparently.

>   There is another one that I can't remember well enough to quote, bits of
>   it are:
>   $@$J$^(J $@$`$.!"$J$^(J $@$M$.!"$J$^(J $@$?$^$4(J.
  Wasn't it like
	$@$J$^(J $@$`$.!"$J$^(J $@$4$a!"$J$^(J $@$?$^$4(J.
                        $@!)!)(J


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From: ishikawa@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp (Chiaki Ishikawa)
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Subject: Re: Tongue-twisters: was Re: NG for gaijin topics. (English)
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