Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Salutations

A few students and I came up with the most clever ways of saying 'Good Morning' and 'Good Afternoon'. In the morning you say 'Ohayoo Gozaimasu', which of course sounds like Ohio. So, now I say a very loud 'Ohayoo' and insert a 'kara kimashita' right after that. Which means 'I come from Ohio'. Very clever indeed. The funniest one is how we modified 'Konnitiwa'. 'Konbini' means convenience store, so we tacked that on to the beginning of the word. We tacked another 'wa' at the end of the word to make the word Chiwawa or chihuahua. So the whole word is 'Konbinichiwawa', hilarious!

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