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他のスレッドで見つけた英語表現について質問するスレ ッド

ドインキーズちゃん、説明をどうもありがとうね！
Yeah, if "big" and "gutted" had been linked by a hyphen like you spelled it, maybe I would have had less difficulty to figure out what the word "big" modified. How she had written was neither "big and gutted" nor "big-gutted" and I was confused. Anyway, you are always so helpful, doinkies-chan, hontou ni arigaotu ne!

Mycernius-san, thank you so much for the input.
When I find this kind of good information, I really get excited and can't wait to get an actual chance to use one. Although I'm right now a bit tired because I worked my guts out yesterday, I'm feeling so happy and excited about it.

そうそう！それから「肝っ玉かあちゃん」なんて言い方もあるよね～！ 肝が太い、または、肝のすわった、ちょっとやそっとのことで物に動じない度胸のあるお母さんのことなんだけど、レオンさんのお母さんは肝っ玉かあちゃんかな？
 
thread title
Best Club in Tokyo 2 meet lots of foreign Gaijin men

Post #5

Probably something from the CFM company.

Mike Cash-san said Ian Yamane-san's cup of tea was something from the CFM company. Does anyone know what CFM stand for? I Googled and Wiki'd but couldn't find out what it does. Thanks in advance! *bows*
 
Kyoko_desu said:
Although I'm right now a bit tired because I worked my guts out yesterday, I'm feeling so happy and excited about it.
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すぐに使うなんてカワイイね君。（笑）
俺の母ちゃん？（笑）まぁ、７０年代に俺の父ちゃんと結婚するために日本を出た・・ってのは結構スゲェと思うし尊敬してますね。と言ってもネズミはメチャ苦手やっけん。（笑）ちなみに俺は昆虫が苦手で～す。（笑）

ＣＦＭ・・なんだろうね？Ｇｏｏｇｌｅでサーチしたらスゲェいっぱい見つかったけど・・（汗）ＯＰさんはカキコ＃３で「Ｃｏｏｌｅｓｔ ｂａｒ」の事話してるから、多分Ｃｏｎｔｉｎｅｎｔａｌ Ｆａｎ Ｍａｎｕｆａｃｔｕｒｉｎｇ Ｃｏｍｐａｎｙの事なんじゃない？扇風機らしき物の会社みたいだけど。ＭｉｋｅＣａｓｈの事だから分かんないけんね。（笑）ＰＭして聞いてみたら？
 

わはは！！そりゃあ確かにクールだわ！:lol:
ところで、ＣＦＭが、例えば、日本人なら誰でも常識的に、NHKやUSAが何かわかるように、英語圏の人ならすぐにそれが何かわかるようなものだったら、ぜひ私も知っておきたいって思ったんだけど、誰からもレスが無いところを見ると、どうもそうでもないらしいようですね。

そっか、レオンさんは、昆虫がきらいなんだ。私もミミズとかめっちゃ苦手。あ、ちなみに、私、ちっちゃいころミミズのこと、ミズズって言ってたそうです。んで、まわりの人が「ミズズじゃなくて、ミミズだよ。」って教えてくれてもガンとして「ミズズ」といい続けた頑固者だったらしいです。
 
Major US publisher McGraw-Hill has paperbacks on both American Idioms and British-English Idioms,with 1500-1800 entries at reasonable priced @ $5.95 and $6.95 in US dollars.

It's a good reference to any English dictionary collection,I purchased my copy of NTC's Super Mini American Idioms from a local Walden Bookstore chain awhile back.
 
ウケルね君。（笑）ってか俺「昆虫きらい」じゃなくて「昆虫見たら心臓が止まる」って感じなんだけど～・・（汗）子供ん頃はいつもダンゴムシの事「友達」って呼びながら遊んでたのに・・（なんかスゲェ「孤独」って感じがしますねぇ・・）（笑）
この前長崎でゴキブリを見たわ！ってかトイレでもう座ってたんだけど、横見たらメチャでけぇゴキブリが・・「ケツふくか、逃げるか・・」一瞬迷ったわ。（笑）
Ｏｆｆ－ｔｏｐｉｃでスンマセンね。（しかもくだらん話！）（笑）
 

Wow, ricecake-san, your English is already as good as that of native speakers and still studying! I'm so proud of you.

I don't own a book but have a website called "phrase finder" bookmarked, which is a good one, but when the idiom is twisted and used, it gets harder for me to find it there. So, I'm seeing this thread really really helpful and I thank you and other senseis so much for sparing your precious time with helping me here.

To leon-san - 虫恐怖症のレオン先生にも感謝してるよ～ん、いつもありがとうね～！
 
thread title
Politeness may save your life in Japan

#10
Far less often than I see dead threads needlessly revived.

An old thread had been revived and this sentence is what Mike Cash-san said about it.

I really can't get what he meant because I cannot understand what "far less often than" part. Is the word order changed in this sentence? Is any word ellipted? I guess it is, because you use the word "than" when you compare something with another thing. However I can't figure out what number of times was compared with that of the dead threads being needlessly revived.

Could the sentence be changed like:
I see dead threads needlessly revived far less often than something.
or
I see something far less often than seeing dead threads needlessly revived.

"far less often than something" literally means 何かよりもずっと少ない回数で, right?

Would anyone please translate it into easier English or into Japanese?

「古いスレッドをいたずらにによみがえらせること」が何かより多いのか少ないのかさえわからない、という悲しい状態です。この文は倒置かなんかでしょうか。 私にとってはとても難しい文です。よろしくお願いします。
 
I think to make it a complete sentence, you add:
I see it far less often than I see dead threads revived needlessly.
古いスレッドをいたずらに蘇らせるほどじゃないけどね。
古いスレッドをいたずらに蘇らせるよりよっぽど珍しいけどね。
Just my two yen!
 
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おいおい。古いスレットだってことに何の問題があるの？

様々の同じようなスレットを統一することが出来ればいいと思いますが。。
新しいポストより、古いのは優先権があるんでしょう。
まだ見ていない人も一番多いですね。

「新しい葡萄酒は古い皮袋に入れてはならない。」 このフォーラムの精神を表したものだといいと思います。
 
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am I going to die in Japan?

Post #6

And don't feel bad about eating at KFC (except for the price maybe, yowza...),


Kyoko san, I always find this thread interesting - and now may I'd like to join your side and ask a question.

I've never seen/heard the word "yowza".
According to 英辞郎 it is an interjection meaning 賛成, and there seems to be another spelling (?) yowzah.
I wonder what exactly this word means and can be used, also interested in its origin.
I'd be grateful if anyone could give me some information on this word.
 
This slang word " yowza " brings back memory of one song from 1970's R&B Funk band as the vocalist repeatedly " yowza .. yowza .. yowza ",I can't remember the title.
 
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epigene さん、どうもありがとうございました。ず～っと、ず～っと、epigene さんがこのスレに参加してくださるのを待ってたんですよ～。やっときてくれましたね、本当にありがとうございます！

前後関係から、「無駄に古いスレッドをひっぱり出してくること」に対してネガティブな意見であるんだろうってことはわかったんですけど、すごく難しかったです。こういう英文は、私には書くことはとうてい無理だと思うんですけど、せめて理解だけはしておきたかったんです。本当にありがとうございました！

Elizabeth さん、私も、もしも、同じような内容のスレッドを統一できたらすごく便利になると思います。きっと検索もしやすくなるでしょうしね！

You are very very very very welcome, undrentide-san! Please feel free to participate in either/both Q-side and A-side, any time!

As for your question, yowza. I've never heard it either and I think it's a really interesting word. From what I see at the link epigene-san gave us, we can also use it as 「やったね！」 besides 「賛成～！」?

And I found this page
It tells a bit about how it derives from and I hope it helps.
 
Thank you epigene san and Kyoko san, these links are great!

It seems the word came from "yes sir!" - I'm wondering what is the closest words in Japanese?
こういう簡単そうな表現が一番日本語にしにくかったり しますよね。
 
話が横道へ逸れたらごめんなさいね。
次回は、適当な言葉を申し添えるようにします。
私にとっては、「無駄な古いスレッド」そういう意見なんて読むのは嫌だから。。。
 
thread title
Will Japanese massacre foreigners if a major earthquake hits Tokyo again ?

Post #18

Still, under the intense pressure of such a cataclysmic event, who can possibly know for certain? Not I, said the cat.

Why did Shooter-san all of a suddenly mention a cat there? I scrolled up and re-read all the above posts because I thought I had missed something but couldn't find anything related to cat.

Then I thought maybe he had twisted some proverb and used it there and I tried to search it. I did get tons of phrases including the word "cat" but still couldn't find anything that enabled me to get what Shooter-san had referred to.

Does anyone know why he said "said the cat" there? It really was Shooter-san himself who said "not I" there, not a cat, right?

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
 
Kyoko-san,

As in Japanese or any other language, language is founded on its culture and heritage shared among native speakers (from schooling and everyday living in their respective cultures). Shooter-san quoted from here:

The Litte Red Hen

To understand these things, you need to scour through a lot of books (including nursery rhymes, Shakespeare and other classics, as well as literature showing current trends in English usage).

Like you, I hang around here to learn from other posters, especially witticisms that non-native speakers find difficult to emulate even after sooooo many years of English study.
 
Damn Shakespeare, making my English class unpleasent...
 
osistlk said:
Damn Shakespeare, making my English class unpleasent...
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, still retain the dear prefection that he owns, without his title. So Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is not a part of thee, take all myself.

I still know that by heart after all these years.. Isn't that wonderful.
 
Spending 90 minutes trudging through Hamlet for my AP English class is at the bottom of my list of things I like to do...
 

Oh, so most of the people in some countries know this folk tale and know what animals said "Not I." there, right? It's just like almost everyone in Japan knows what Momotarou did and what animals were his followers, isn't it?

あ～、言語をマスターするのはなかなか大変ですね。
仮に、辞書に載っている単語をたくさん丸暗記して、文法をマスターしたとしても、今回のように、ネイティブなら常識的に知っているんだけど、外国に住んでいる者にとってはさっぱりわからないことが話に出てきちゃうと、意味がちんぷんかんぷんなんてことが出てくるんですから。

そうそう！Dubya がブッシュのことだとかも、どうしてそう呼ばれているのかも、このフォーラムで見かけて、調べてみて初めてわかったことなんです。 Mother Goose とかもある程度知っていたほうがいいんでしょうね。

ここのいろいろな投稿記事を読んで、こういったことがひとつひとつわかっていくことはとても楽しいことです。 epigene-san, どうもありがとうございました！（ぺこり）


To leon-san and osistlk-san

That's just like Japanese students memorize the first paragraph of "The Tale of the Heike". （平家物語）（へいけものがたり）

I still remember:
祇園精舎の鐘の声、諸行無常の響きあり。
娑羅双樹の花の色、盛者必衰の理をあらわす。
おごれる人も久しからず、唯春の夜の夢のごとし。
たけき者も遂にはほろびぬ、偏に風の前の塵に同じ。
So I know how you guys feel, hehehe.

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Att.: all US members: where do u live?

Post #14

People here say we have four seasons: winter, still winter, thaw and construction.

I figure the area misa.j-san lives gets very cold in winter time. In her town, it's like they have two winters, that means they have a longer winter period, and then thaw, when it gets warm and the snow and ice melt, then what does "construction" mean there? She said they have very nice summer there, so I assume it refers to something about the summer there.

よろしくお願いします。
 
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Perhaps all that snow and the water from the thaw causes damage, therefore requiring construction to fix the streets and stuff...

I'm not sure, it only snows for a couple of days where I live...
 
It's probably because construction is very difficult in the winter, it usually gets postponed until warmer weather.
 
Aww! Then the word "construction" means its normal dictionary definition there? I was thinking it was used as some kind of metaphor, like, the trees start growing new leaves because many of them lost all the old ones at the beginning of the winter, and I was looking for idioms or expressions which includes that word with that meaning. Seems I read too much into it.
深読みしすぎました～。Anyway, many many thanks, osistlk-san and nice gaijin-san!


Now comes a new question~~~
Yes, yes, leon-san, it's about your post, hehehe, I guess you know me very well.

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Japanese Beer

Post #92

I'm sure the US has some fine beers. Unfortunately, the big brands are like "sex on the beach".

Hmm, since you said "Unfortunately", you don't think the American big brands beers are so good, right? But in what way are they bad? Because I have never had sex on the beach, I have to rely on my wild imagination on this matter.

Is it anything related to sand? The first thing that comes up to my mind about it is that you get sand all over your body. If it is, I can bring up this Japanese expression 「砂をかむような」(just like chewing sand) which means 「味気ない」 (tasteless) here.

And if it refers to something salty, you meant those beers taste kind of salty?

The last thing I could imagine about having sex on the beach is getting sunburnt all over your body but there is no way to associate it with a beer.... Oh! No! I mean yeah! There is something that you can associate sunburn with beer! You get all red when you are drunk and also when you get sunburnt. So maybe you meant those beers are too strong and can get you drunk too easily?

Please tell me, how those beers are. Are they tasteless? Too salty? Or too strong? I hope one of them are correct, but can't be sure~~~.
 
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