Re: uh?

Chris Kern wrote:

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 

Hmm. In fact I *did* use edict, but I assumed that the presence of this
was purely a coincidence, since a) the translation given doesn't sound
anything like the Japanese would (phoneticism being the usual reason
that I know of, other than occasional emphasis, for writing something in
katakana) and b) I couldn't figure out offhand how the meaning would
make any sense in the context. Apparently I was wrong...

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