Dくん：「Ok, around the back, left-hand layup, nothing but net.」
Eくん：「Got it.」
Eくん attempts... but fails.
Dくん：「あっ！You've got 「う」！」
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Games of horse are much shorter in Japan. Not because of a lack of talent, but because of a lack of カナ。
Punny Japanese: There's Some Ginger! edo@punnyjapanese.com
This blog is one gaijin's attempt to learn Japanese through mnemonics, puns, and general linguistic absurdity.
Z-san explains: "In America, there is a basketball-related game called 'Horse' where players challenge each other to make difficult basketball shots. For every shot missed, a player is 'given' another letter of the word 'Horse'. If a player gets the whole word, that player loses. In Japanese, the word for horse is うま which has only 2 characters instead of the 5 in English."
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