---UnderF4331@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/6/99 11:38:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ayonge@yahoo.com
writes:
<< ##I had to read this over several times to untangle it.
My personal perference would be to simplify.>>
Same here. Any idea how?
##You asked for it. ^_^
First the original, then my contribution.
---UnderF4331@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/6/99 11:38:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ayonge@yahoo.com
writes:
<< ##I had to read this over several times to untangle it.
My personal perference would be to simplify.>>
Same here. Any idea how?
Not so long ago, in a faraway place called
Nerima, my Great-great-
grandmother met with two men of the land whose children were soon to
marry.
Now, my mother was married to the son of one of these men, and
they were
trying to find a way for her husband to marry his true love.
So they made an arrangement: one of my mother's children would
marry one
of their grandchildren.
##I'm going to JAPAN! Not Someplace cool like America, exciting like
Thailand or dangerous like Africa. JA-boring-PAN. I'd rather watch
rice grow. Just because mom and pop are on this nostalgia kick. Geez.
At least when grannie Cu goes all weird she picks something exciting
like the time she destroyed the Sung dynasty with the Roaring Lion
Bullet or when she invented printing and gunpowder an' cool stuff like
that. I mean, yeah so mom got ditched by her ol' boyfriend so she got
pop to promise one o' THEIR kids would marry one o' HIS kids. GROSS.
That's like slavery. (Well, without all the chains an' whips an'
stuff. )
Mind if I bounce an idea off of you before (possibly) using it?
##OUCH! ^_^
I was
thinking of making it so that the names we know the Chinese Amazons
by, like
Shampoo or Mousse, are nicknames, and they have secondary names (not
really
used) that are more...authentic. (Though I personally have a liking
for the
'long ago, some old catalogs of hair products dropped down from the
sky. At
the time, it was taken as a sign from the gods' theory...)
##It depends on how silly/funny the rest of the story is going to be.
Again my personal preference is not to do this sort of thing. Could be
very funny. I'm just not brave or skilled enough to try it. I would
LOVE to be able to play word games (esp. with names) the way native
Japanese speakers do. Hope this helps.
--Ryo Hoshi
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