筈

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should

On-Yomi: カツ

Koohii stories:

1) [ikmys] 17-7-2007(41): Should you put bamboo through your tongue? If you don't already know the answer yourself, you shouldn't even ask.

2) [chibimizuno] 8-8-2009(17): Note: Mantixen has the right idea with his story. This should is not a moral obligation (eg, something you "should" do), but rather something that is expected (eg, my keys "should" be around here somewhere…). If you know some intermediate Japanese grammar, you'll be familiar with it as はず. Story: 「私の舌は竹から作られているよ！」「そんな はずないでしょう！｣.

3) [mantixen] 28-7-2009(10): A bamboo tongue piercing should feel good, but I'd rather she took it out first.

4) [Megaqwerty] 29-6-2007(5): In some tribes, it is fully expected that you should put bamboo through your tongue.

5) [blannk] 8-9-2009(2): Tough without the puns available in the imaginative universe of はず. How to reach bamboo tongue from should? Well, should rhymes with 'wood'. By a slip of the imaginative tongue you confuse wood & bamboo & write 木舌 instead of 筈 . You should know better! You should learn the bloody language instead of horsing around with this mnemonic crap! You should know はず by itself! You should not equate bamboo tongues with verbal auxiliaries! Ooh, hey, tongue and 'verbal'! There's a start!

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