Tonguetwister Challenge

tonguetwister.jpg Record your rendition of this tonguetwister (recommended to us by Wang Jianshuo) on an .mp3 and send it to us in the comment section below. You may win a special prize from us!:
石室诗士施氏,嗜食狮,誓食十狮。适施氏时时适市视狮。十时,适十狮适市。是时,适施氏适市。氏视是十狮,恃矢势,使是十狮逝世。氏拾是十狮尸,适石室。石室湿,氏使侍拭石室。石室拭,氏始试食是十狮尸。食时,始识是十狮尸,实十石狮尸。试释是事。

Oh, for those of you that don't read Chinese characters, the hanyu pinyin may help:

Shishi shishi Shi Shi, shi shi, shi shi shi shi. Shi shishi shi shi shi shi. shi shi, shi shi shi shi shi. Shi shi, shi Shi Shi shi shi. Shi shi shi shi shi, shi shi shi, shi shi shi shi shishi. Shi shi shi shi shi shi, shi shishi. Shishi shi, Shi shi shi shi shishi. Shishi shi, Shi shi shi shi shi shi shi. Shi shi, shi shi shi shi shi, shi shi shi shi. Shi shi shi shi.

And here's Jianshuo's rough translation of the tonguetwister. It's actually rather poetic:

A poet with last name Shi living in a room made of stone,
loved lions, and sware to eat ten lions.
Shi often go to market to see lions.
At ten o'clock, it happened that ten lions came to the market.
At this time, it happened that this Mr. Shi came to the market.
Mr. Shi looked at the ten lions, and used the power of arch, killed the ten lions.
Mr. Shi picked up the body of the ten lions, and got to the stone room.
The stone room was wet, Mr. Shi asked servant wipe the stone room.
The stone room was done, Mr. Shi started to try to eat the body of the ten lions.
When he started eating, he found out the ten lion body were actually ten stone lion body.

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The (English) Wikipedia entry has the original version (from which a great number of slightly different variantions now exist in the wild) and a much better translation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishishishishi

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