Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
 

The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den is a famous example of constrained writing by Yuen Ren Chao which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi in different tones when read in Mandarin.


? Shi Shy shyi shi she ?

Shyrshyh shyshyh Shy Shyh, shyh shy, shyh shyr shyr shy.
Shyh shyrshyr shyh shyh shyh shy.
Shyr shyr, shyh shy shy shyh shyh.
Shyh shyr, shyh Shy Shyh shyh shyh.
Shyh shyh shyh shyr shy, shyh shyy shyh, shyy shyh shyr shy shyhshyh.
Shyh shyr shyh shyr shy shy, shyh shyrshyh.
Shyrshyh shy, Shyh shyy shyh shyh shyrshyh.
Shyrshyh shyh, Shyh shyy shyh shyr shyh shyr shy.
Shyr shyh, shyy shyr shyh shyr shr, shyr shyr shyr shy shy.
Shyh shyh shyh shyh.


Meaning in English:

? Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den ?

In a stone den was a poet Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten.
He often went to the market to look for lions.
At ten o'clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.
At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.
He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die.
He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.
The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.
After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions.
When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.
Try to explain this matter.

This would probably go best in the WTF thread...but it's Asian...so it's going here...

They have a similar one with the character for ma. They use it to teach mandarin in the schools here. Chinese is a very difficult language. I also heard last night that the word for chicken is the same as the word for prostitute:-)

speaking of asian faggotry, where is n2?

He hurt his back in an accident so isn't on as much at the mo.

too bad for him...


these are fun...

Why's it gotta be yellow? What kinda racist bullshit is this? What's the next pic gonna be, the yellow bus crashing into something? And why's it gotta be a short bus? I thought Asians were smart? Or is it a reference to their small penises?