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| Crystallas |
 Posted: May 12, 2008 1:51 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
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Location: Germany
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I've a question, what means "Babashi"? baba means old Woman ore something  .
In another forum, I heard something like "Bullshit"  ?
Can you help me? |
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| sljinu |
| Posted: May 12, 2008 6:36 pm |
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Planetarium
Joined: 02 Aug 2007
Posts: 793
Location: Australia
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| What's the context? Or is it just that word, randomly by itself? |
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| love_cherry |
| Posted: May 13, 2008 6:42 am |
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Happy Days
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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"Babashi" doesn't exactly mean anything, I think. But seeing how Ai included her manager, Kobayashi, in both the Ai am BEST Tour live and PV, I think it has to do with him.
Baka + Kobayashi = Babashi?
Most likely, the "ya" was dropped out to allow the tune to flow fluidly.  |
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| remblue |
| Posted: May 16, 2008 1:30 pm |
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ネコに風船
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
Posts: 536
Location: united states
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love_cherry wrote: "Babashi" doesn't exactly mean anything, I think. But seeing how Ai included her manager, Kobayashi, in both the Ai am BEST Tour live and PV, I think it has to do with him.
Baka + Ko bayashi = Babashi?
Most likely, the "ya" was dropped out to allow the tune to flow fluidly.
Oh wow, really?  I don't remember where I read it, but from somewhere I had read that it was like a game similiar to Old Maid, hmmmm goes to show after a year or so when you think you know something, you really didnt know anything  |
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| love_cherry |
| Posted: May 16, 2008 2:18 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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^ A game!?  You might be correct, remblue. All Google brings up about babashi is the PV.  This needs further investigation. Though, I do remember seeing a drawing of Ai's (from each of her Music Station Lives), and she drew a picture of a mouse with cheese. Could that be it? |
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| mangomalte |
| Posted: May 16, 2008 5:07 pm |
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恋愛写真
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
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Location: Sweden
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the reason it's interpreted as "bullshit" is that "baba" means shit or bullshit (written in hiragana). baba also means grandmother or old woman (祖母) and also... horse-riding ground (馬場), haha.
as for the shi... dunno. could be 氏, which would make the title "Mr. Bullshit" in english.  somehow... i doubt it, though. but you never know.
it could also be 詩, which means poem or verse of poetry. so.. basicly a poem that's just a bunch of crap.
but i don't think it means any of those anyway... i guess we won't know unless we hear something about if from Ai-chin herself. |
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| Crystallas |
| Posted: May 18, 2008 5:52 am |
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Happy Days
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Posts: 97
Location: Germany
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| Thank you for help ! I'm sure now, it's a wordcreation from her, like "Chu-Lip", "Furenjaa/Frienger" ore something. |
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| remblue |
| Posted: May 18, 2008 10:40 am |
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ネコに風船
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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Location: united states
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| Thanks for the info mangomalte Ai is so mysterious with her song titles. I was thinking about Chu-Lip and Frienger, she has her own way of putting things. And until she explains things or the lyrics are released we can only speculate. With Babashi that's the only thing being said. So can't turn to the lyrics for that. I remember when Kimi ni Kaeru came out people were first translating it to something about a frog |
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