Revised and enlarged edition of exercises in the Yokohama dialect

REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

OF

EXERCISES

IN THE

YOKOHAMA DIALECT.

TWENTY SECOND THOUSANDTH.

Revised and corrected at the special request of the author
by the

BISHOP OF HOMOCO.

YOKOHAMA, 1879.

REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

OF

EXERCISES

IN THE

YOKOHAMA DIALECT.

TWENTY SECOND THOUSANDTH.

Revised- and corrected at the special request of the author
by the

BISHOP OF HOMOCO.

YOKOHAMA. 1879.

To

MR. NG CHOY,.

Attorney General of the Colony of Victoria, Hongkong,
asf also to the gentlemen to whom the second edition of
the "Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect" was dedicated,
this work of labor and love is respectfully inscribed by
one who knows, alas, too well that "By others' faults wise
men correct their own."

HOMOCQ.
Yokohama, 31st March, 1879.

"Wheh we're rich, we ride in 'rickshaws'

"But when we're poor tbey call us 'chickshaws.

Translation from Old Japanese Poem.

Vide Satow and Ishibashl.

VoL n P. 28.

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''Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect"

URt

SECOND EDITION.

To

PROFESSOR MAX MULLER,

anH

JOHN GRIGOR, Esq

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED

The former is known to the world as the greatest of
dialecticians, and the latter stands pre-eminent as a master
of the Yokohama idiom.

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PREFACE.

'T^HE author of the first Edition was gfuided in his task
^ by a conscientious adherence to -the most reliable
authorities accessible. Even, however, with these aids,
the compilation of this small work was then attended with
difficulty, owing in great part to the continual changes as
the dialect crystallizes, so to speak, and as progress is
made toward fixing this valued means of communication
between the native and foreign resident or visitor.

The method is based, as will be perceived, upon the
Ollendorf system, tne advantages of which are patent in
any continental citj^ visited by English or Americans.

Neither the author nor the reviser flatter themselves
that they have made any great addition to philological
literature; but if they have succeeded in doing no more
harm to learners of Japanese than their honored predeces-
sors and successors in similar labors, their highest aims
will have been attained.

It is not claimed that the present small book contains
all the words used, but none are given which are not used
as described. It is easy to see the advantage of getting
at the dialect actually used in Yokohama, rather than
learning by laborious study the Samurai dialect (the one
generally taught by professors and books) and which
nobody understands beyond a few teachers.

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NOTICES BY THE NATIVE PRESS TO THE
SECOND EDITION

"It would be an invaluable book to any Japanese ac-
quainted with the Yokohama idioms, and able to read
English." — Hakubun Shinshi.

"Since Hepourn's Dictionary — in which the continuity
of the narrative is dislocated by Chinese characters — we
have seen nothing so well calculated to show foreigners
how little Japanese we speak to them." — Shisshin Kibun

"It ranks with 'Humboldt's Cosmos,' and Burton's
Anatomy' in our library, and for solid facts, it knocks the
hind sight off any book of its age we ever tackled."

-Hiogo Shimbun.

"There is only one thing for Japan to do to take rank
above other nations — let the people, even to the yetas.
learn this book, and then turn them loose on other
countries. — Kanagaki Shimbun.

, "We have feared this. Our currency tampered with,
and our hair cut the wrong way ; and now this book
comes along, and pulls the roof off our language."

— Nisshin Shtnjisi.

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PREFACF TO THE PRESENT EDITION

X HAVE had great pleasure in revising this little, work,
^ which will doubtless be found well worth studying
by all persons engaged in Commerce both in .China and
Japan, whether as Merchants, Shipowners, Brokers, Auc-
tioneers, Consul-bobbery-shots (from whom may Heaven
preserve us) owners of Racing Stables, Missionaries, "et
hoc omnes ero ero " I have not thought it necessary to
enter into the more delicate grammatical mtricacies in-
dulged in by Hepburn, Satow, Ishibashi and other modern
compilers of Dictionaries of the Japanese Language as,
during a somewhat extended residence in Japan, I have
found the Grigorian dialect is more easily understood
by all intelligent natives and more generally used by
foreigners of all cl'asses.

The "Nankinized Nippon" phrases at the end of this
edition were compiled at the special request of my old
friend and fellow Collegian Mr. Ng Choy of Hongkong,
whose recent appointment as Attorney General at that
Colony has given such general satisfaction (vide London
and China Express). This request was made when Mr
Ng Choy was consulted by the Imperial Government as
to the advisability of appealing against a decision given
by the Court in Yokohama in a case brought by the Gov-
ernment for the purpose of improving the "Churchwood
Estates " In giving Counsel's opinion, Mr. Ng Choy was

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somewhat at variance about the special meaning of the
two words.

WOK-KALLOONAI and WOK-KALLIMASSING,

and his opinion, consequently, (like his appointment) had
a slight inkling of Hennessey-phobia about it. Thetis is
always a little shy in the presence of Themis : but a care-
ful study of this little work will overcome even this false
modesty, and I hope to realize the fact that the thought
and Irbor employed in producing the "Revised and En-
larged Edition of Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect"
will not have been very greatly thrown away.

HOMOCO.

Given at our Palace.

The 31st day of March, 1879,

the 13th year of Meiji,
Second Cousin of Jimmy Tenno.

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NOTICES BY THE PRESS TO THE
PRESENT EDITION

To the Student who is affected with a touch of melan-
choly we can heartily recommend the merry conceits
which brighten the Revised and Enlarged Edition of
Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect — Chuggai Bakka
Shinbun.

There is abundance of humour, varied and refined, and
the "Revised and Enlarged Edition of Exercises in the
Yokohama Dialect" will take a prominent place among
the standard works on Dai Nippon. — Naru Hodo Shinbun.

It is a bright and sparkling lexicon and deserving of
an extensive circulation. — Din Shin Shinbun.

Homoco's genius throws a charm over every thing
he writes or undertakes : he has imagination of the
highest order, and can enchain the industrious student by
the sheer force of dramatically developed phrases. This
little Lexicon has not yet been equalled in pathos, interest,
and peculiar attractiveness by any of those more detailed
and intricate works which have been published by others
who may have more deeply studied the pathetic and
poetical Japanese language, but who have not achieved
the rare gift of fascinating students wherein the Bishop
of Homoco fairly surpasses himself. — T * * * o Times

Beauty dwells in every line, but being printed at the
Gazette office, we must refrain from giving this little work
the favourable criticism we otherwise think it deserves. —
Heraldoh Shinbun.

Curious and interesting book, clear and lucid in its
treatment. Full of useful hints. The Bishop works out

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the leading principles with the most unflinching logic and
nothing can really be simpler or more practical than the
sound foundation on which they are based. — Homoco
Sporting News.

This is a book written with understanding; not a
favorite or fostered idea inflated by all manner of devices
and accommodations to the bulk of an ungainly volume.
It is based upon a system philosophically deduced from
the Reviser's own experience, and personal observation, —
Jinriccky-maru Shinbun.

We can recommend this method from personal ex-
perience, having had the pleasure of trying it ourselves.
Two hundred words of a language previously unknown,
combined in idiomatic sentences, were duly mastered in
the way proposed, by studying them five minutes at a
time, five or six times a day, and when permission was
given to refer to a grammar, great was the astonishment
as well as the delight felt, on discovering that the rules of
syntax were known already. — Japan Punch.

The Bishop of Homoco has brought together just that
kind of information which would be of most service in
enlisting an interest in the department of education which
has been most neglected among us. His style is good,
and while he makes a superb book as an author, he is the
wise teacher withal, earnest, critical, and 'full of enthusiasrii
for his work. — San, Francisco Bulletin (by wire).

The *'Bishop" leaves no stone unturned to endeavour
to make his theory clear, and he argues out the' most in-
tricate points with such truthful power that one cannot
help travelling right along in his path, feeling all the
time, that his translated sentiments are sensible, just, and
to the point. — Sajampan 'Kome-fune Shinbun.

To say that a man, should not learn a language before
learning its grammar is as opposed to common sense as
the remark of the Irish Consul-General at Kobe (J. D.
Carol Esq.) thgit he would never venture into the water
until he had fully mastered the art of swimming. But
■where the facts are not only palpable, but even more easily

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to be acquired than theory, we hold it to be sheer waste
of toil to learn the theory first. Grammar will eventually
take its proper place as an adjunct to logic, mathematics
and history, and will illustrate logic and be illustrated
by it in turn. The "Revised and Enlarged Edition of
the . Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect" is worthy of
attentive study, and, as a most thoughtful analysis of
the attitude and action of the mind in mastering one of
the most difficult of eastern languages, must interest
everyone who loves education, whether he wish or not
to apply the "Exercises" to help himself in becoming an
accomplished linguist. — Jew Yoban Shinbun and Fisher-
man's Review.

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FIRST LESSON.

The, a, an, some No equivalent exists for the

articles, etc., in Yokohama
Japanese

I Watarkshee, also Watar-

koosh' (this latter is only
used by owners of coal
mines and millionaires)

You Oh my

He Acheera sto

NOTE.— There is no distinction in the dialect between Singular L
and Plural. T

Mine or ours Watarkshee or Watarkoosh*

domo
Yours Oh my

His or theirs Acheera sto

The foregoing comprise about all the pronouns used,
and the student need not bother about genders.

Hat Caberra mono

His hat Acheera sto caberra mono

Stove pipe hat Nang eye chapeau

Penny Tempo

Your penny Oh my tempo

Horse Mar

My horse Watarkshee mar

Firewood Mar key

Boat Boto

Our boat Watarkshee boto

Tea Oh char

Your tea Oh m}' oh char

The examples illustrate the ease with which the pos-
sessive case is made. The other cases can be worked up
as required by the same rules.

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To have
Will have
Has had
Can have
To obtain
To be

To wish to be
To be at home
To arrive
To want
To buy

To make a profit by any

transaction mercantile or

otherwise
To sew, to mend or make

clothes
Have you a horse?
He has a penny
Will you have a boat?
Do you keep small inlaid

ivory charms for sale

here?
Is Mr. Jones at home?

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Arimas

Cow

Katchimas

So so

Mar arimas?
Tempo arimas
Boto arimas?
Charms arimas?

Jones-san arimas?

Titles are rendered in Japanese by the termination
"san." "Master" is colloquially rendered by "Donnasan"
or by '*anattar."

Have you any tea?
Has the horse arrived?
He has had his tea
My hat is here

I want my tall white hat

It was a horse
This is a penny

Oh char arimas?
Mar arimas?
Oh char arimas
Watarkshee caberra

mono

arimas
Watarkoosh' nang eye cha-

peau a;rimas
Mar arintas
Tempo arimas

NOTE.— This £ar reaching; v«:b. "arimas," translates all the idioms
of, to have, esse, possess, habere, manere, sein, haben, avoir, etre,
ser, estar haber, tener, and "have got." Beyond this it has as a.
general colloquialism, a close analogy to the "altro" of the Italians.

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To remove

Take away

Carry off

Clear the table

Get out of the road

He has gone out

Take the horse away

Remove your hat

Has Mr. Jones left town ?

To break

The boat is broken

I wish to get this horse

broken
To mix
Illness

Unmistakably, without fail,

etc., etc.
I feel ill, mix me some tea

To hasten

Hurry ! be quick

Get me a boat quickly

Is the horse a fast one?

How do you do?

Good morning

Good day

Good evening

Good bye

By and bye

Yes

No

Really

Mistaken

Difficult

Immediately

Loafer

Piggy

P'ggy
Piggy
P|ggy

Piggy arimas

Mar piggy

Caberra mono piggy

Jone-san piggv arimas?

Serampan

Bote serampan.

Mar serampan

Cham pone
Sick-sick, also,

worry
Die job

Am buy

Watarkshee am buy worry
oh char parra parra

Jiggy-jig
Jiggy-j'g

Boto jiggy-jig

^*^i" j'ggy'j'g arimas?

Ohio

Ohio

Ohio

Ohio

Sigh oh narrow

Bynebai

Sigh oh

Nigh

Hontoe

Ooso

Moods cashey

Todle-mar*

Fooratchi-no-yats

* Todie-mar is more correctly translated as "eventual-
ly,' "when it answers my purpose." Grammatical
•students assert that it means "never."

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SECOND LESSON.

Not to have

To be out

Not to understand

Arimasen
Arimasen
Walk-arimascD

The student will note the formation of the negative by
the addition of "en" or "ing" to verbs ending in "mas."
All others form the negative by adding the termination
"nigh." e.g. — "Not to remove," is "Piggy nigh."

Good

All right

Bad

Much

Little

How much?

What is the price of your

horse ?
The price is a penny
It is not much
Is he ill ?
He has been off his feed but

merely for a short time
One
Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

To see

I see a boat

I see three pence

Long

I see a long boat

Time

Your. a shee

Your a shee

Worry

Tack san

Skoshe, or cheese eye

Ikoorah ?

Mar ikoorah?

Tempo arimas
Tack san arimasen
Am buy worry afimas?
Skoshe am buy worry arimas

Stoats

Stats ; — also renedered by

two peesh
Meats
Yotes
It suits

Moots or Row ku
Nannats or Sitchi
Yachts
Cocoanuts
Toe

High kin

Boto high kin arimas
Tempo meats highkin
Nang eye
Nang eye boto high kin

arimas
Tokey

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1 have not seen a penny

for a long time
A man
A woman
A child
A servant
A dog
Strong, well
A strong man
A sound horse
A "bad hat"
Ghosts of departed cattle

A good sea boat

Big

A lighthouse

Water
Bring

Bring me some water
Where

Where is the nearest light-
house

What

Wliat time is it?

It is nine

Colour

What colour is your horse ?

It is a black

Does his colour change in

the various seasons?
Who called when I was

out?
To speak, to say, to tell
Did the visitor leave any

message ?
No sir, he did not
Who

Watarkshee tempo high kin
nigh nang eye tokey

Sto

Moose mc

Baby san

Boy

Come here

Die job

Die job sto

Die job mar

Berrobo-yaru

Shin danji ooshie abake-
mono (N.B. — This is pure-
ly a legal technicality)

Die job boto

Okee

Foonev high kin serampan
nigh rosokoo

Meeds

Motty koy

Meeds motty koy

Doko

y^SSy j'ggy fooney high kin
serampan nai rosokoo
doko?

Nanny

Nanny tokey arimas?

Cocoanuts arimas

Eel oh

Oh my mar nanny eel oh
arimas?

Kooroy arimas

Atsie sammy eel oh piggy
nigh?

Nanny sto arimas, Watark-
shee arimasen?

Hanash

Hanash arimas?

Hanash arimasen
Dalley

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Butter

Oil

Kerosene

Pomatum

Grease

Bring me some pomatum

Fill the lam.ps with oil

What is the present market

value of kerosene?
Where is the butter?
The best oil
The best of men
A good child
A slow servant

Aboorah

Aboorah

Aboorah

Aboorah

Aboorah

Aboorah motty koy

Lampo aboorah sinjoe

Aboorah ickoorah?

Aboorah doko?
Num wun aboorah
Num wun shto
Your a shee baby san
Bakar

THIRD LESSON.

Tailor

Bootmaker

Church

Officiating Priest

Cakes

Ridiculous or laughable

Get me a boat

Is it strong and well trim-
med?

Are the boatmen able to
take care of the sails in
case of heavy gales?

The boat appears crank

Where is the Captain?

The wind

The wind is very fresh

The water is shallow here

Push off the boat

Wait!

Let one boatman wait

Start here

Coots pom pom otoko

Oh terror

Tacksan hanash bosan

Kashy

Oh Kashy

Boto motty koy

Die job arimas?

Sindoe die job arimas?

Boto sick-sick arimas

Num wun sindoe doko?

Cassie

Okee cassie arimas

Meeds cheese eye arimas

Boto piggy

Matty, skoshe matty

Stoats sindoe skoshe matty

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Should any one enquire for
me say I've gone out in
the boat for a spin
around the Bay

Conflagration

There is a large fire at
Tokio

Give

Give me a cigar

Pass the wine around the
table

To pass, to walk, to be not
at home

The dog walks

Cause the horse to trot

The lady is not at home

I am going for a trip to the
country

Where has she gone?

I regret being unable to
inform you with cer-
tainty

Will she return shortly?

Possibly next week

I will leave my card

Take care

Take care of the horse!
Take good care of the child
Mind your helm !
Food, Sustenance
Disturbance, noise

Nanny sto hanash, watark-
shee boto piggy

Cad gee

Tokio okee cad gee arimas

Sinjoe

Mar key tobacco sinjoe

Sacky maro niaro

Maro maro

Come here maro maro
Mar maro maro
Kommysan maro maro
Enakka maro maro

Doko maro maro?
Arimasen

Jiggry jig arimas?
To die mar

Nammai kammy matty ari-
mas
Ah booneye
Mar ah booneye
Babysan ah booneye
Boto ah booneye
Chobber chobber
Bobbery

The best authorities agree in referring the origin of
these last two words to pigeon English — a low and un-
grammatical dialect, void of syntax — spoken between
foreigners and Chinese.

Tell the tailor to come to-
morrow and I will have
plenty of work for him

Punishment

Start here hanash meonitchi
maro maro tacksan so so
arimas

Pumpgutz

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To punish a servant

Hammer

You must make less distur-
bance driving nails into
the wall, or I shall be
obliged to punish you

Whose house is this?

Let us inspect it

White

Red

How much is this cabinet?

One hundred boos

It appears dear

Have you none in variegat-
ed colors; these are too
plain ?

Only

Other

All

Have you no others?

Tbe same

These are the same

Where are the small ones
you showed my friends
from England last week ?

Unfortunately they were
purchased on Tuesday by
a party of tourists from
San Francisco.

The student will have remarked the great compres-
sibility of the dialect.

Boy pumpgutz
Pompom

Oh my pompom bobbery
wa tarkshee pumgutz

Dalley house arimas?
Skoshe high kin
Shiroy
Ah kye

Tongs ickoorah?
Itchy boo high yackoo
Tack eye arimas
Kuroy, shiroy, ah kye arima-
sen?

Back harry

Bates

Minner minner

Bates arimasen?

Onadgc gote

Onadge kotoe arimas

Cheese eve doko?

Arimasen

Beer
Claret
Hollands
Stop watch
Cabinet
Great variety
Racing pony
Bread
Beef

Beer sacky

Ah kye sacky

Homura square oh

Matty toky

Tongs

Ero-ero

High high mar

Pan

Ooshee

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Beef tea
Fresh milk
Canned milk
Hash

Shoes, boots
Slippers
Pistol
Paper
Rain

Earthquake
Here

Come here
Be quiet

Ooshee oh char

Ooshee chee chee

Bricky chee chee

Champone ooshee

Coots

Cheese eye coots

Cheese eye serampan

Kammy

Ah me

Okee abooneye pon pon

Coachy

Coachy weedy

D — ^attv

FOURTH LESSON.

Perambulator

Carriage

Man-power carriage

Two-wheeled pony car-
riage

Groom

Saddle

Bridle

Stirrup

Reins

Price

Godown. or place to store
packages

Crupper

Girth

Ciive the horse some teed

Clean

Groom the horse well

Saddle the horse

This girth dees not appear
very strong

Oil the carriage wheels

Cook

Boil

Baby san bashaw
Kooromar or Bashaw
Gin ricky-pshaw
Mar gin ricky-pshaw

Betto
Koorah
Cootsoo wall
Abi omir
Tad sooner
Neigh dan
Koorah

Ato mono

Obee

Mar chobber chobbcr sinjoe

Kireen

Mar die job kireen

Mar koorah sinjoe arinias

Obee worry arimas

Kooromar aboorah sinjoe

Kooksan

Para-para

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Hot water

Oh you

Stove

♦Heebatchey

Roast

Yakemas

Stew

Champone yakemas

Fry

Tates yakemas

Chicken

Tory

Egrgs

Tomango

Potato

Eemo

Table

Dye

Plate

Sarah

Boil four eggs

Tomango yotes para para

Roast the

fowls

Tory yakernas

To wash

A row

Laundryman

Sin turkey

Soap

Shabone

Starch

Shiroy mono

Flat non

Shin nosey

Clothes

Kimmono

Tell the laundryman to

wash the clothes
Direct him to use more

starch
A clean shirt
Open the door
Shut the door
Open the window
Shut the window-
Gate

Stair-case
Nail
Hot
Cold

Cold water
Umbrella (rain)

do. (sun)

Clergyman
Ambassador
Phvsician

Sin turkey hanash kimmono

a row
Cheese eye shiroy mono

arimas
Atarashee shiroy
Toe akemas
Toe she merro
Mado akerro
Mado oh shemerro
Mon

Hash ero
Koong-ee
Atsie
Sammy
Sammy meeds
• Ah me kass
•Tent sam kass
Bosan

Yakkamash shto
Doctorsan

* "Sheebatchey" is used as well as
not known.

"Heebatchey"; the gender is

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Dentist

Lawyer

Banker

Auctioneer

Marine insurance sun^eyor

Silk inspector
Tea inspector
Exchange broker

Merchant

Carpenter

Soldier

Sailor

Nursemaid

Foster mother

Chinaman

Gentleman of color

Coolie

Foreigner

Dead

Foreign cemetery

Theatre

Hahdykesan

Consul bobbery sto

Dora donnyson

Selly shto

Serampan funey high kin
donnyson

Eeto high kin sto

Oh char chobber chobber sto

Kooromar maro maro akin-
doe

Akindoe

Dyke oh

Ah kye kimmono sto

Dam your eye sto

Amah

Chi chi amah

Nankinsan

Kurrumboh

Nin soaker

Eejin san

Shin dan jee

Eejin san shin dan jee to-
koro, or Bohm san koorah

She buyer

FIFTH LESSON.

Good day

I wish to see some nice

small curios
Of what kind and quality?
Something exceptionally

nice
Would you like to see some

old Satsuma screens of

wonderful variety and

strong pattern?
Yes, I should be pleased to

look at them

Ohio

Your a shee cheese eye curio
high kin

Nanney arimas?

Num wun your a shee ari-
mas?

Die job screen high kin ari-
mas?

Sigh oh, high kin arimas

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How much is this small in-
laid tray?

It is twenty dollars

I will give you two boos

Yon are very hard upon a
poor merchant but it is
yours for the sake of
future business

Will you not take i Yen for
the article? I am an in-
fiuehtial man and can put
many tnousand dollars
worth of business in
your way

Excuse my plain speaking-,
I am not I'ke other Jap-
anese dealers, and have
always made it a rule to
ask only the price I will
take for my goods I
have travelled in Chris-
tian countries and have
learned to despise the
double faced dealings of
our nation.

I admire your intelligence
and as you wish to raise
the standard of your
countrymen to that of
the civilized world, I pre-
sume you will accept
payment in Kinsatz in-
stead of dollars

The great depreciation of
the value of the paper
currency of the Imperial
Japanese Government
renders it impossible

. during the prolonged ab-
sence of my partners to
accept your tempting
offer

Cheese eye ickoorah

Knee jew dora
Knee boos arimas
Your a shee

Ichi rio sinjoe arimas, wa-
tarkshe oki akindo, tack-
san cow

Watarkshee atchera kooni
maro maro arimas. Japan
otoko bakka, kono house
stoats neigh dan backary
hanash

Walk-arimas, neigh dan
your a she, Kinsatz sinjoe
arimas

Kinsatz yah dai oh Dora
your a shee

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Send it home

Very well, sir, where is

your residence?
I am not residing here; I

am a globe trotter

Will you, then, take the
article in passing again
this way?

No, you had better send it
up to the Grand Hotel

1 am much obliged and
have always held Euro-
peans in the highest
esteem, and hope you
will favour me by further,
patronage

Watarkshee house sinjoe
House doko arimas?

House arimasen skoshee
high kin maro maro ari-
mas

Donnyson- come back ari-
mas?

Knee jew ban Hotel maro

maro your-a-shee
Sigh oh narrow dozo byne-

bai moh skosh cow

The student will now practice by translating sentences
from English into Yokohama Japanese and vice versa.
Atfer some practice of this, the dialect will be mastered
sufficiently for all ordinary purposes.

Tianslate into Yokohama Japanese.

1. Will you go with me into the shop?

2. No, my dear fellow; I do not want to go in.

3. I think I have lost a fifty-cent piece in this small
shop.

4. Who is in the shop now? the bootmaker or his wife?

5. There is only his assistant in the shop.

6. Is not a "store" another name for a "shop."

7. Yes ; they now say in Yokohama, I keep a "store,"
not, I keep a "shop "

8. Take off your hat when you enter a shop

9. I have been told that you do not take off your hat
when you enter a drawing-room.

10. Always take off your hat when you enter a draw-
ing-room.

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11. Cannot my portmanteau go in the cab? — No; but
the parcel can very well.

12. Your bootmaker has come ; he is in the next room.
— Very well; you may show him in

13. Show my friend into the drawing-room, and the
doctor into my bed-room.

14. Could you tell me where the shop of this poor man
is who lost his wife and his two children last week?

15. He has no shop now; he is a missionary.

16. Go, in passing, to my daughter-in-law's, and ask
her when she will send me the children.

17. I cannot call on your daughter-in-law b'lt I will
look in on the grandmother of your aunt's gardener.

18. Will you go before you take something?

Translate Idiomatically into English.

Oh my nangeye tokey high kin nigh. Die job arimas ?
Jiggy jig oh char motty koy, donnyson arimas. Doko
maro inaro? Nanny house arimas? Anatter tempo sin joe.
Tempo arimasen. Ah me arimas? Ah me hass arimasen,
Ginricky pshaw motty koy — ginricky pshaw arimasen,
mar motty koy ! Mar sick-sick, betto drunky drunky,
koora serampan. Oh my piggy jiggy jig, watarkshee
pumgutz sinjoe arimas.

Champone hanash watarkshee onadge kotoe bates
arimasen. Tacksan samniy arimas. Cheese eye kimmono
buckery, bates kireen arimasen. Tomago para para, pon
pon nigh serampan arimas. Skoshe matty.

Dye serampan, dyke eh hanash coachy weedy Sigh
oh tadighma. Dye die job arimasen, itchiboo sinjoe nigh.
Die job arimas itchiboo toe sinjoe buckery. Minner
minner dyke oh onadge kotoe arimas. Hanash bobbery
nigh, bakar arimas, d — atty! Damyuri sto okee boto
arimas, sendo hanash drunky itchiboo sinjoe arimasen.
Nankeensan nangeye koongee arimas.

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NANKINIZED-NIPPON

There is not a great deal of difference between the
Japanese Dialects as spoken by what are termed Foreign-
ers (Fanqui) and the inhabitants of that part of this Vast
Globe known as the CeJestial Empire. Foreigners as a
rule rattle their "Rs" roughly, readily, and righteously, or
else ignore them altogether: thus we sometimes hear the
word signifying to misunderstand pronounced by Foreign-
ers both

Walk — ^karr^'masing and

Walk — ^kawymasing

The Celestial, however, lubricates the "R" and trans-
poses the word into

Walk — ^kallimassing.

The verb "Arimas" signifying to have, to be, to get,
&c., &c. (vide page 2) is also transposed and somewhat
shortened by the better class of Chinese into the soft
Italian sounding syllabylic of "Alloo" — and the somewhat
harsh "Watarkshee" is modified into the more euphonious

"Watak-koo-lack'shee"

hence in place of the harsh sounding phrase

"Watarkshee am buy worry arimas

"(for, I am not feeling well),"

our Celestial neighbours give us the following balmy
and soothing sentence: —

"Watak-koo-lack'shee am buy wolly alloo."
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The numerals and methods of counting are about the
same in either case, but the following will illustrate more
clearly the slight differences:

English Foreigners-Japanese.

One Stoats

Two Stats

Three Meats

Four Votes

Five It suits

Six Moots

Seven Nannats

Eight Yachts

Nine Cocoanuts

Ten Toe

Twenty Knee jew

Nankinized-Nippon.
Shtots'hi
Fu'tarchi
Meachi
Yoh-tchi
Jtsuitchi
Mootchi or loku
Sitchi
Yartchi
Kokarnotchi
Toe, or jew
Knee jew

(other multiples in accordance with the above.)

Twice two are

four.
I should like to

borrow 500 Yen

from you if you

have them.

Stats stats yotes
narimas.

Go-hakku rio
high shacko.

Fu'tarchi fu'tarchi
yohtchi aloo.

Anatta go-hakku
Ho aloo nallaba
watark-koo lack'
shee high shacko
dekkelloo alloo
ka (literally if
you have 500
Rios have you
the mind to lend
them to me)

The difference between

Wok-kallonai and Wok-kallimassing

is really only a difference without a distniction (vide
Adams' Japan page 64, vol. II.) but at the same time these
words may be so used as to deceive, in their actual mean-
ing, even the best of our linguists.

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Wok-kallonai, as generally used by celestials means

I don't

I won't

I shan't

I didn't

I never intended to and

nothing you can say will

make me

understand

Wok-kallimassing is generally an evasive answer, and
when used may be translated in either of the following
ways : —

It answers my purpose to\
say that I do not J

I can give you the informa-
tion you require but it
suits me better that you
should think I

It is simply a question of
Mexicans and if you
make it worth my while
I will very quickly

understand

misunderstand

understand

Numerous other instances of this most comprehensive
word might be given, but the intelligent student will at
once understand the full value of a word of so much
significance and bury it deeply within the inmost cell of
his penetrating brain.

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