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

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From: Mark Dyer
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 16:38

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In article <ISHIKAWA.92Jul20181741@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp> ishikawa@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp (Chiaki Ishikawa) writes:

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

Probably. It was always too hard for me, so I never learned it! I'm not
sure if this counts as a tongue twister, but here's another fun one that
I remembered:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

The 'w's seem to give Japanese people fits.

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