You know it seems that Shiritori is much more fun when you speak the language. I guess that kind of makes our language suck because there is no way to really do what they do in Japan. I remember playing that game. When you have no vocabulary it really sucks to play. I guess it is a good way to learn the language... even if you forget how things are spelled all the time. That always got me in the end. Oh well, at least that is something that ends with years of practice right... well that or not practice. To think, Americans could be so much more literate and have much more expansive vocabularies if there was a game like this one. However, I digress you just kind of have to accept certain things.