Ryu goes to the market again.

**Ralek** · 09-30-2002, 06:44 PM

a field of grass
all that's left
of a warrior's dream

-- japanese haiku poem by Banto. i think

**Ralek** · 09-30-2002, 07:22 PM

Japan is so the best vidoe games. i want to go there to play the video games in their arcades. They are the elite in video arcades and invented the fighting genre that now dominates the video game world. I actually used their game "street fighter 2 turbo" to prepare for my fight with Shaolin Tiger. I used the character Sagat which is ironic becuase i actually got a scar on my chest from the Shaolin Tiger fight and Ryu's name is Ryu.

**Xebsball** · 09-30-2002, 08:59 PM

Ralek, you're the one on the bottom.

**IronFist** · 09-30-2002, 11:42 PM

Ryu, I thought Mandarin had 4 tones. I know Thai has 5. I heard Cantonese has 8(!) or something.

Someone in the know please clarify.

IronFist

**rubthebuddha** · 10-01-2002, 12:17 AM

xebby, that is a fantastic picture. ralek's enjoying himself so much, he wants to cry.

**fa_jing** · 10-01-2002, 08:05 AM

Mandarin has 4 tones - level, rising, dipping, and falling.

**Ryu** · 10-01-2002, 08:17 AM

Is it 4 tones? I thought it was 5.... No wonder I'm sucking at it!

Oh wait, *checking my notes*

My friend says there's actually 5 tones, but the fifth isn't really a tone at all. 4 main tones though. Yeah that's right.

difficult language.
I don't know about Cantonese, but my training partner speaks it, so I'll ask him.

Ryu

**Crimson Phoenix** · 10-01-2002, 08:58 AM

Linguists are still arguing about cantonese...some count up to nine tones, although you can do just fine with 6, the others being very specific variations when you master the language...

**Xebsball** · 10-01-2002, 03:30 PM

are tones the same as vowels? cos we have 5 i think, then with the thingies it makes 8 diferent sounds.

**IronFist** · 10-01-2002, 04:44 PM

Originally posted by Xebsball
are tones the same as vowels? cos we have 5 i think, then with the thingies it makes 8 diferent sounds.

Tones are like, the pitch at which you say the word.

I'm sure someone could give an actual example, but here is my made up one.

Take the sound "ah."

If you say it with rising intonation (going from low to high) it means one thing. If you say it falling, from high to low, it means another thing. If you say it low and don't change the pitch, it means somethine else. If you say it high and don't change the pitch, it means a 4th thing.

English doesn't really do it. I guess the closest example in English would be like if you say "PERfect" it's an adjective, but if you say "perFECT" it's a verb. Like I said, it's not really the same, because this is more emphasis than tone, but it's the closet thing I can think of.

So, it's not the same as vowels.

cos we have 5 i think, then with the thingies it makes 8 diferent sounds.

By "thingies" I think you mean accent marks or accents or whatever they're called. Like à or â or á, right? I don't know which ones Portuguese has.

Hope this helped.

IronFist

**Ralek** · 10-01-2002, 08:09 PM

pi ca ChUUU!!!!

Squirtle.. squirtle...

pikapiKA !!!

Ka me ha me ha!!!!!

Leggo my Eay-wa!!! = Leggo my eggo.

Sionara = bye

each = 1

ni = 2

san = 3

wassup my nigga = Salutations my aquaintance

Yo quierro taco bell = I want taco bell

Yo quirro taco bell = I love taco bell

**Ryu** · 10-02-2002, 12:45 AM

Ralek I'll help you with Japanese.

Repeat after me.....

"Boku wa otaku dayo! Watashi no te wa sugoi desu!"

Please put this in your signature.

Ryu

**Ralek** · 10-02-2002, 01:24 PM

Ryu. Thank you for the new signature.

**IronFist** · 10-02-2002, 11:27 PM

Originally posted by Ralek
Sionara = bye

lol. I guess it might sound like that to some people's ears, though.

IronFist

**KnightSabre** · 10-03-2002, 02:28 AM

I tell you Ralek livens this forum up some what,

It's good to have ya back kid

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