Re: Japanese DJ Patter

Ned i bach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, swt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> teithant
i thiw hin: 

> Often, English words are used as a sort of punctuation at the end of a
> line.  The band CCB did this a LOT, but I don't have the CD, so here's
> part of Moonlight Densetsu (the Sailor Moon opening theme):
> 
>    Nakitaku naru you na MOONLIGHT
>    Denwa mo dekinai MIDNIGHT

Do As Infinity's "Week!" had something like this as well:

    RASSHU ni tobikondeku Monday
    Ki ni iranai SUUTSU de Tuesday, Wednesday
    KOPII ni tsumazuite iru Thursday
    Kirinuketa dake no Friday, zutto
    Machitsuzuketetemo
    Shiawase no MEERU
    Todoku hazu mo nai

although that was probably more because they all end in "-day".  (I've been
listening to a lot of Do As Infinity lately because of exposure to them via
Inuyasha, which has consumed far more of my free time than I should allow.)

> Sometimes the code switching is clever, like in "I, I, You & Ai" from the
> first Urusei Yatsura movie.

I think the first cross-lingual rhyme I ever heard (or at least noticed) was
in Morning Musume's "Ren'ai Revolution 21", between "ii ja nai" and "in the
night".  Even better, it seems at first like it wouldn't work until you
consider that the `t' in "night" is very weak.

> Foreign tongues aren't as popular in American pop music, although there is
> a rise in the number of people getting kanji tattoos.  They mostly get the
> kanji because they "look cool", the tattoos might as well say "KICK ME"
> for all that they know.

    http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A30312/high/auqb04ie.jpg

>                      I knew a girl who had the ideogram SHIN "believe"
> tattoed on her right breast.  I thought it was great.  I mean, I'm not a
> religious man, but there are some things that I do believe in.
> 
> Also, she lived on H Street.  I am not making this up.

SSC: My roommate recently got an anime catalog in the mail, and as a result
our latest source of entertainment is reading the hentai subcatalog that was
inside it.  At least I've got lots of new ideas for Christmas presents.
(Live-action "La Blue Girl"?  I'm half-tempted to buy that just to see how
it could be physically possible.)

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