NEOBassDUDE said:Can someone appease my interest? I know that はし means chopsticks, edge, and bridge. Can someone write up a sentence like "I threw my chopsticks over the edge of the bridge." using the kanji?
Also, I just thought of this... why in the world are they called 'chopsticks' in 英語？
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Golgo_13 said:The Japanese use 箸 for hashi, the chopstick. More commonly said "ohashi"
橋 is bridge.
And 端 is edge But "hashikko" is a more commonly used form for "edge"
Nihon-bashi no hashikko kara ohashi o nageta.
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The pronunciation is slightly different for each as well. Intonation, inflection, whatever.Glenn said:As for the other stuff, I just assumed that it was はし for everything. Oh well.
Glenn said:By the way, why did you go with Nihon-bashi? Isn't that a specific hashi?
Here is one view of hashi that was agreed to in a previous post for what it's worth -- Chopsticks is High--Low pitch accented, Bridge is Low--High, Edge is even. I've had the same difficulty trying to get various inflections of Ishi (Stone/rock, intention/mind, physician) to match up with actual speakers, though, so it's not necessarily anything worth pursuing beyond a certain point.stephenmunday said:This is a little off subject, but have you tried finding the difference in pronunciation that the Japanese claim there is between hashi (bridge) and hashi (chopsticks)? I have had various Japanese teacher-types try to convince me that there is some slightly different nuance. The interesting thing is that when you get two Japanese together, get one to say one of the "hashi" and the other to state which one was being spoken, they often get it wrong!
I think they do each bring an independent set of ears which comes from not encoding intonation as much as context in picking up the meaning from real time speech.The ironic thing was that the same native speakers had been very insistent that there was a clear difference that the gaijin should try to emulate.