Re: uh?

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:56:58 -0500, The Wanderer
<inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted the following:

>Bart Mathias wrote:

>> And one of the characteristics of what I call チンピラ語 is a general
>> fronting of that vowel.
>
>...I'm not being able to parse that katakana, at least not into anything
>English; the best I've managed to do is a somewhat slurred "simpler",
>which doesn't make much sense.

Just use good old edict:

ちんぴら (n) hoodlum

That should probably have an entry in katakana too (maybe the updated
version does; mine is rather old).

-Chris
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