パンの用意あり / でも / 年越し / 何年でしょうね

[eeky]

Hi,


1. 同講演は、アインシュタイン博士の希望に依り、長時間に渡る場合は、パンの用意あり

I get: "According to Dr Einstein's wishes, in the event that the lecture lasts a long time ..." then I'm a bit stuck.

a) What is パンの用意あり? Is this パン as in "bread"? Possibly something about refreshments being served? What is the grammar of 用意あり?

b) Also, what is the purpose of 同? Could 同講演 mean something like "the abovementioned lecture"? (This is at the end of a notice advertising the lecture.)


2. 「きりたんぽでも食べて、早く暖かくなれ。」とおじい さんは言いました。

I suppose this essentially means " 'Eating some of this きりたんぽ will soon warm you up', said the old man." However,

a) I am unclear why でも is used.

b) Is なれ the imperative of なる?


3. この問題は両国間で政治的解決を見た。

Translation given: "The two countries came to a political settlement over this dispute."

Is there an obvious likely subject for 見た? (This is an isolated example sentence, so there is no more context.)


4. From time to time, in various books, I see what seem to me like superfluous furigana. One typical example that I'm looking at right now is 年越し, which has furigana としこし over the kanji, even though し is also written as a separate full-size kana. Is this kind of thing always a mistake, or can it be a valid furigana style?


5. ベン君は今年何才になりますか。ベン君は何年でしょう ね。

I understand the first sentence to mean "How old will you [Ben] be this year?"

I am not clear about the purpose of the second sentence. I thought it might be asking Ben's zodiac sign, but でしょうね seemed the wrong ending for such a question.

 

[Toritoribe]

1) a)
a classical equivalent of 用意がある/用意がしてある.

b)
Yes, that's "abovementioned" or "this".

2) a)
something like

b)
Yes.

3)
問題

見る can means "(an action/effect) is realized".

［11］ 動作・作用が実現する。

完成をみる

なかなか意見の一致をみない

見る - Yahoo!辞書

4)
年越し is treated as one word, so the furigana としこし would be used. It's not common, or rather mistake, though.

5)
It's pronounced with a rising intonation.

 

[eeky]

Thank you, sorry in (4) I am not sure whether you are saying it is a mistake or it isn't a mistake.

5) Could we say ベン君は何年でしょう ? That looks right to me. I have a difficulty with ね at the end of a question unless it is a tag question like "isn't it?" or "didn't you?" or whatever.

 

[Toritoribe]

4)
Strictly speaking, it's a mistake, but quite often used and probably almost acceptable.

5)
ね has a nuance that we (the addressee and the speaker) both think about it, and therefore sounds soft. でしょう is for just asking.

 

[eeky]

OK, thanks.