Parsed Participle http://parsedparticiple.org/blog Faiz's Web Journal en Copyright 2007 Faiz Kazi 60 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:11 GMT faiz@parsedparticiple.org PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.4.2 8/16/2007 Squatting cats japan/squatting-cats http://parsedparticiple.org/blog/japan/squatting-cats.html This link on YAHOO! Japan with funny cat pictures was brought to my attention. YAHOO! Japan has a contest for the best photos of cats sitting in a certain funny (squatting) way:
The title reads "Sko-suwari contesto, neko gentei" (in Japanese: 「スコ座り」コンテスト【ねこ限定】). In English, if I dare try:
"Scottish-fold-style sitting contest, for cats."
Suko-suwari got me curious, and after googling it on a few Japanese blogs, I learned that it is a made-up phrase that refers to the peculiar sitting style of Scottish Fold cats.

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