3 sentences of an Interview

[Emeric]

Hello,

I was reading (well, trying to read I guess) an interview in a magazine. If I understood some questions and answers, 3 sentences are confusing me. I did a red mark around them in the screenshot.


BL作品 are "boy/boy love stories"
(I understood the last sentence with 専門用語)

Kind regards

 

[nekojita]

Can you indicate what parts of the grammar/vocab trouble you? The first one has a dropped いい (癒しになればいいと思って) but otherwise it looks reasonably straight forward.

 

[Emeric]

In the first sentence, 差し入れで持って means to bring (a book) ?
As you explained, if there is "いい dropped, does the sentence mean "I hope ...", like in this example :
私は少しずつ英語が話せるようになればいいと思っている

and in the second, what is the meaning of the たり form, is it for emphasizing ?

 

[nekojita]

差し入れ is a noun (originates from a verb), often referring to food/drink brought to someone who is working (not normally a book) 差し入れで持ってきました。 = brought it as 差し入れ

It is the same ~ばいい as "I hope", or "it would be nice if", or something along these lines.

~たり is a common verb form which is used to list verbs non-exhaustively (i.e. "and other similar things", at least here - there are other uses). The last use of たり in a sentence is normally followed by する (which can be conjugated). It is the past tense + り, and as you can see from here, だった→だったり is also possible.

 

[Toritoribe]

Incidentally, the dictionary has an entry for ～たり.
たりの英語・英訳 - 和英辞書 - 英語辞書 - goo辞書

 

[Emeric]

Thank you. I was used to たり with two (or more) verbs so, with only one in a sentence, I was wondering if the meaning was the same.

 

[Mike Cash]

Thank you. I was used to たり with two (or more) verbs so, with only one in a sentence, I was wondering if the meaning was the same.

It is currently quite often used that way recently in casual speech. Just as English speakers have their meaningless extra bits (you know, like, actually, basically, pretty much, etc) Japanese speakers also have trendy words, phrases, expressions, etc which come and go. Recently it seems to be a rash of this use of たり which can confuse the foreign learner as it doesn't fit the way we were taught it is used.

 

[Emeric]

I see, it's good to know it.