Friday, August 25, 2006

Did you know that? А знаете ли вы...?

Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Наши глаза с рождения одного размера.

A house fly lives only 14 days.
Домашняя муха живет всего 14 дней.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
Знаете ли вы имена всех трех мудрых обезьян? Мизару(не вижу зла), Миказару (не слышу зла) и Мазару (не говорю зла).

Hot watter freezes faster than cold water! (Find out why here)
Горячая вода замерзает быстрее, чем холодная.

3 comments:

Muskie said...

They must be Japanese.

The first one is definitely 見. Actually the monkees are defined in my dictionary:

(n) hear-not monkey
聞か猿 [きかざる]

That is the character for listen, there are often multiple pronounciations for characters in Japanese though my dictionary says this is kikazaru.

Here are the others:

(n) say-not monkey
言わ猿 [いわざる]

(n) see-not monkey, one of the three wise monkeys who see and hear and speak no evil
見猿 [みざる]

The Japanese have a word for everything, even if they have to steal it from a foreign language and use Katakana.

Muskie said...

The say not monkey would be pronounced iwazaru. Of course there are dialects in Japanese, the most famous of which is Osaka-ban.

Official Japanese is the Tokyo dialect, I wonder if before the Tokugawa shogunate, they probably just used the dialects more...

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