Re: comedy central-Eurosport sumo "coverage"-total nonsense and waste of time

[Cynthia & Andy <t-c@japan.email.ne.jp>]

At 03:00 PM 12/8/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi non-Europeans!!
>
>Well, yesterday was the final installment of the KAyushu BashU ( THAT'S
>how it should be pronounced, according to the commentator..).    If it
>wasn't sad, I would be laughing my head off . For those of you who
>didn't have the priviledge of watching, and LISTENING, here are some
>gems I jotted down:
>
>Tack-eye-  Tachi ai- ( Oh, what a THUNDERING Tack eye that was..}
>musashi- mawashi  ( He has his arm on the musashi)
   
    <snip--tons of hilarious/sad mistakes!>

Man--and to think I cringe/get annoyed when some of the NHK announcers
pronounce Japanese words with a strong english accent, or occasionally
confuse rikishi names!  I guess this account from Moti will really make me
appreciate all the NHK commentators!  (Even Dave Wiggins! ;)  Oh well, not
everybody can be a Doreen Simmons/David Shapiro/etc... :)

Seigatakaigai
Andy Tanis
t-c@japan.email.ne.jp