一番記憶に新しいの / 前回族 / それだけでも / 僕も同じので

[eeky]

Hi,


1. 一番記憶に新しいのは、２０１１年の３月に起こった東日本題震災だね。

How does 一番記憶に新しいの work? Is it talking about the 一番新しいの among 記憶?


2. これはＮＨＫが前回族放送したビデオです。

Well, I guess 放送した is one unit, so what is 前回族?


3. 過去を旅することができることは、それだけでもドキドキすることがたくさんある。

I understand this is something about being able to travel in the past (time-travelling), and many exciting things happening, but I do not understand the purpose of それだけでも.


4. 美味しそうですね。僕も同じので。

I assume this means "That sounds delicious. I'll have the same." but I am not exactly sure about 僕も同じので. Is it another way of saying 僕も同じのだ, with 同じの meaning "the same one / same thing"?

 

[Toritoribe]

1)
東日本大震災, right?

の is a pronoun; thing, topic or like that.

2)
There must be a typo. I think it's just 前回放送した.

3)
"Even if anything special doesn't happen (in the travel)" or along the line.

4)
お願いします is omitted.

 

[eeky]

1. Oops, yes, I missed a 大. I thought that の was a pronoun, but I'm still not confident that I understand the phrase as a whole. Does に mean "among"? Is it saying that among all the 記憶, this one is 一番新しい?

3. Sorry, I don't get this at all. Could you give me a translation of the whole sentence?

4. Another ので. Can you shed any light on this one? Is の a pronoun?

 

[PoliSciStudent]

>一番記憶に新しいのは

I've always understood 「記憶に新しい」 as an idiomatic set phrase so I've never given much thought to its grammatical constitution.

If pressed, I'd say that the に of the 記憶に新しい has a similar meaning to the "in" in "fresh in my memory". A similar usage is 記憶にない (it is not in my memory = I forgot).

>過去を旅することができることは、それだけでもドキドキすることがたくさんある

それだけでも here means "by itself", or "in and of itself". As already pointed out, the intended meaning in this context, roughly speaking, is that " time traveling is exciting in and of itself, even if anything special doesn't happen"

>>The ability to time travel has (involves) many things that, in and of itself, makes one's heart beat (gets one excited)"

>僕も同じので(お願いします)。

I am ignorant about the precise grammatical details, but it might help to think of it as a short-hand form of 僕も同じものでお願いします.

 

[eeky]

Hi PSS, thanks for your clear explanations. I just have one more question about the last one, if I may:

In 僕も同じので(お願いします) and 僕も同じものでお願いします, what is the purpose of で? Is it simply the particle that "goes with" お願いします? Probably I should know this but have forgotten.

 

[PoliSciStudent]

>what is the purpose of で?

The particle で in this case serves a function similar to "with" in English. Some examples are:

>>電話で連絡する (Contact with the phone) / ペンで書く (write with a pen)

僕も同じ(も)ので（お願いします） translates roughly to "I'll [go] with the same thing".

 

[eeky]

I see, thanks.

 

[Toritoribe]

FYI, the speaker said 僕も同じので to the waiter/waitress.

 

[eeky]

Yeah, I figured that, thanks.

 

[eeky]

By the way, the reason I failed to understand (3) is that I thought 過去を旅することができること meant "the fact that time travel is possible" rather than "things that time travel makes happen". Is the former interpretation possible in another context?

 

[Toritoribe]

The former one is exactly my, and of course PoliSciStudent-san's interpretation. "The ability to time travel" refers to 過去を旅することができること, and "things" in "many things that~" is for こと in ドキドキすることがたくさんある in his translation.

 

[eeky]

Oh, OK, yeah, it does seem to make sense now in my original interepratation, so I'm not really sure what I was concerned about... Just generally getting confused I expect ...