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Dieter: moved from arimasen (2014-07-07 15:49) [#10186]

Velobici: is "Te" (play, hand, move) of "Te wa arimasen" the same as "te" in sente, gote, and honte? Hmmm..why is it Kami no Itte rather than "Kami no te"?

John F. Hmmm,how is it that all roads lead to Hikaru nowadays? It's the same te as in those and also in tewari, teai, teatsui?, aite?, etc. It can also be read -de or ta- or -shu- (as in akushu = bad move?), It can mean other things, such as -er (as in worker). It's neither singular nor plural as it stands and there is normally no straightforward way to make a Japanese noun plural. Reduplication is possible sometimes, as here: as in the children's song o-tete tsunaide... (let's hold hands) but not for the go sense of move. But there is a way of emphasising the singular - add the number one (itte). However, this is complicated in the case of kami no itte by the fact that the phrase exists in the normal language to mean the protecting hand of the gods, so the Hikaru usage is a pun (and unlike in the west, puns are considered elegant in Japan). Kami no te is a possible phrase but wouldn't pun so well and wouldn't sound elegant. Mind you, itte can have a plural meaning, too...

iopq: Kami no itte is just a "God-like move(s)." Nothing to do with Hikaru no Go, it just uses this term a lot.

firearasi?: itte=abbreviation of ichi and te where ichi means "one".

 
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