charusu
先輩
- 23 Feb 2011
- 131
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Good evening Friends,
So my girlfriend got a Mameshiba ringtone a few days ago, it says the last stanza (stanza?) of the Mameshiba theme song.
I have it on good authority that it is saying:
豆でもないし
犬じゃないけど
毎日一つ
まめちしき
Which I translate as:
I'm not a bean, nor am I a dog, every day [learn] a little piece of knowledge.
But I don't really understand the grammar - I mean I guess I do after the fact, but if were to say that sentence I would say it differently. I believe the でも is meaning "even" here, so でもない means "not even"? And けど (from けれども) is the conjunction "although, but, however". し is the conjunction meaning "and". Should a more literal translation be "Although I am not a dog, and I'm not even a bean, [I am able to] learn something new every day"? But it doesn't seem like 毎日一つまめちしき has anything to do with 豆でもないし犬じゃないけど such that the conjunction けど would be appropriate.
I'm just all confused, can somebody please clear a bit of this grammar up for me?
Thank you kindly!
So my girlfriend got a Mameshiba ringtone a few days ago, it says the last stanza (stanza?) of the Mameshiba theme song.
I have it on good authority that it is saying:
豆でもないし
犬じゃないけど
毎日一つ
まめちしき
Which I translate as:
I'm not a bean, nor am I a dog, every day [learn] a little piece of knowledge.
But I don't really understand the grammar - I mean I guess I do after the fact, but if were to say that sentence I would say it differently. I believe the でも is meaning "even" here, so でもない means "not even"? And けど (from けれども) is the conjunction "although, but, however". し is the conjunction meaning "and". Should a more literal translation be "Although I am not a dog, and I'm not even a bean, [I am able to] learn something new every day"? But it doesn't seem like 毎日一つまめちしき has anything to do with 豆でもないし犬じゃないけど such that the conjunction けど would be appropriate.
I'm just all confused, can somebody please clear a bit of this grammar up for me?
Thank you kindly!