{"id":9728,"date":"2025-04-23T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/?p=9728"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T01:12:12","slug":"a-delight-for-the-tongues-xan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/2025\/04\/23\/a-delight-for-the-tongues-xan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Delight for the Tongue(s) — XAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know what tongue twisters are?<\/p>\n

In Japanese they are called \u65e9\u53e3\u8a00\u8449, and in Chinese, they are called \u7e5e\u53e3\u4ee4 r\u00e0o<\/span>\u200bk\u01d2u<\/span>\u200bl\u00ecng<\/span>.<\/p>\n

They are words or phrases with similar sounds that are made with similar parts of our mouths.\u00a0 Because of that, our human brains are not good at making our mouths say them clearly when several of them need to be said close together.\u00a0 They are even harder when the order is suddenly changed.<\/p>\n

Maybe every language has them, and they are really fun to try to say.\u00a0 Please try some in a few different languages:<\/p>\n

1) English<\/p>\n

The first of these is very common.\u00a0 The second is a bit rare, but even more difficult:<\/p>\n

\u30fbShe sells seashells by the seashore.\u00a0 She sells seashells by the seashore.<\/p>\n

\u30fbSusie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she \u3000shines.<\/p>\n

2) Japanese<\/p>\n

Please say this word three times fast:<\/p>\n

\u30fb\u653e\u5c04\u7dda\u7167\u5c04\u88c5\u7f6e\u7167\u5c04\u64cd\u4f5c\u5ba4<\/p>\n

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3) Chinese<\/p>\n

This one is quite famous in China, and the meaning is also funny.<\/p>\n

\u30fb\u5403\u00a0 \u8461\u8404\u00a0 \u4e0d\u5410 \u8461\u8404\u76ae\uff0c\u4e0d\u5403 \u8461\u8404 \u5012 \u5410 \u8461\u8404\u76ae\u3002
\nCh\u012b p\u00fatao b\u00f9 t\u01d4 p\u00fataop\u00ed, b\u00f9 ch\u012b p\u00fatao d\u00e0o t\u01d4 p\u00fataop\u00ed.<\/p>\n

(\u30d6\u30c9\u30a6\u3092\u98df\u3079\u308b\u306e\u306b\u30d6\u30c9\u30a6\u306e\u76ae\u3092\u5410\u304d\u51fa\u3055\u306a\u3044\u3001
\n\u30d6\u30c9\u30a6\u3092\u98df\u3079\u306a\u3044\u306e\u306b\u3001\u30d6\u30c9\u30a6\u306e\u76ae\u3092\u5410\u304d\u51fa\u3059\u3002)<\/p>\n

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Do you know what tongue twisters are? In Japanese they are called \u65e9\u53e3\u8a00\u8449, and in Chinese, they are called \u7e5e\u53e3\u4ee4 r\u00e0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9730,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/hyakunin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}