Re: [sumo] Asashoryu RIGHT YOU ARE

["Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Matsuoka" <artist@aloha.net>
To: <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: [sumo] Asashoryu RIGHT YOU ARE


> On 10/9/03 11:47 PM, "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Khishigbaatar Sosorbaram" <khishgee@gmx.net>
> > To: "Bench Sumo" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>;
> > Subject: Re: [sumo] Asashoryu
> >
> >
> >> In Mongolian sumo, sumyabazar is one of the biggest rikishiis...
> >
> > =====
> >
> > That would be Mongolian 'WRESTLING', rather than "SUMO", even though
there
> > is some sort of pre-historic link between the two. "Grappling" contests
are
> > generically called "wrestling". SUMO is a form of wrestling, but don't
call
> > a RIKISHI a wrestler. He won't like that.
> >
> > Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts!
> >
> > [EndPost by "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>]
>
>
> YES, The Sumo association told me personally years ago that I was NOT to
use
> the term "wrestler"... that  they were to be referred to as RIKISHI. And I
> was to inform everyone else.
>
> Then, while talking with Kyokushuzan last month, when I slipped and said
> "Mongolian sumo" he very quickly and pointedly corrected me, saying there
is
> NO Mongolian sumo, that is it Mongolian Wrestling. SO there it is Ma'm,
the
> facts confirmed from the horses mouths... ( an old American expression, I
am
> not calling them horses.)
>
> Lynn
>
> [EndPost by Lynn Matsuoka <artist@aloha.net>]

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You go girl!

[EndPost by "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>]