I am bored. Shiritori?
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I am bored. Shiritori?
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I am bored. Shiritori?
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It would probably be best to explain the rules.
I did a search on the internet and it seems that in Japanese you would play by having each person say a word which begins with the same character that the previous word ended with.
For example, suppose we take "shiritori" as the starting word. It ends with the letter I.
Thus I respond: Indeed
This "indeed" is the second word now, so the next person would choose a word that begins with D.
It appears that the game also might have some kind of scoring system and favor longer words, but I am not familiar enough to know. I only did a quick internet search.
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I am bored. Shiritori?
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http://cdn.meme.am/instances/55713759.jpg
But I always though, latin languages used whole syllabus instead of just letters, it'd be too easy.
In Japanese it works since each characters corresponds to a sound itself.
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I am bored. Shiritori?
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Oh, so maybe it's better to use a full syllable then? I don't know how you're supposed to play it in English.
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I am bored. Shiritori?
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Well, the way I know it, we use sounds rather than letters.
Since you said 'Indeed', I'd need a word that begins with the sound 'deed' too, like:
'Didactic'
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