Need a word or phrase translated?

epigene · 5 Jan 2007

I have no idea what that kanji is, but I found another that resembles what you wrote here:

《音読み》トク／ドク〈d 〉
《訓読み》こうし
《意味》
｛名｝こうし。牛の子。

Regarding the question about 女 , the word that came to mind is "ama," a derogatory word for woman originally written with the kanji 尼 .

Hope it helps some!

Fuumei · 5 Jan 2007

50歳で会社をやめる人は定年でやめるひとの3倍の退職金が貰えることになったんです。

Forgive me for writing out the whole sentence, but I figured it would provide greater context this way. "50歳で" would mean "By being 50 years old"? or perhaps "among 50 year olds"? Normally I would skip this question by but it's bugging me since I can't pin the meaning down properly.

PaulTB · 5 Jan 2007

Fuumei said:
"50ﾂ催寂?堙? would mean "By being 50 years old"? or perhaps "among 50 year olds"?

When 50 years old. (stupid 50 character limit requires random text added)

lamshopping · 5 Jan 2007

Would anyone be able to provide some common ways to say "STOP TRYING TO BE COOL?"

I know the form.. ふりをする (to pretend)

What would a native Japanese speaker say when he tells his friend to stop trying to be cool?

How would you say it to a person who you dislike?

Thanks everyone.

PaulTB · 5 Jan 2007

How would you say it to a person who you dislike?

Maybe カッコつけてんじゃねえ！

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Cue · 5 Jan 2007

epigene said:
Regarding the question about 女 , the word that came to mind is "ama," a derogatory word for woman originally written with the kanji 尼 .

Hmm, after reading Epigene-san's post, I came up with 海女 which also sounds like "ama".

Cue · 5 Jan 2007

Also, Fuumei, it means "at the age of 50".
Those who retires at the age of 50 can get more(3 times, in this sentence) Taishokukin (sorry, I don't know the word for it. Retirement benefits?) than those who retires at 60.
(So, it's something about early retirement. Company wants old people to leave or something.)

Does it make sense?? ^^;

PaulTB · 5 Jan 2007

Fuumei said:
50歳で会社をやめる人は定年でやめるひとの3倍の退職金が貰えることになったんです。

Well if you want the entire sentence translated ...
It has become policy to give people who retire from the company at 50 three times the retirement allowance of those who leave at the (compulsory) retirement age.

Elizabeth · 5 Jan 2007

lamshopping said:
Would anyone be able to provide some common ways to say "STOP TRYING TO BE COOL?"
I know the form.. ふりをする (to pretend)
What would a native Japanese speaker say when he tells his friend to stop trying to be cool?
How would you say it to a person who you dislike?
Thanks everyone.

One way would be the obvious 格好（かっこう、カッコ）つけてないで meaning don't put on airs, don't try to impress...but can be used to anyone, not only for a person that is disliked.

Fuumei · 6 Jan 2007

ポール said:
Well if you want the entire sentence translated ...
It has become policy to give people who retire from the company at 50 three times the retirement allowance of those who leave at the (compulsory) retirement age.

I apologize. I intended on saying that I understood the sentence with that one exception. Thank you for putting in the extra help, it means a lot.

I noticed that the sentence I wrote in hiragana and kanji included this:

"? 烽ｪ貰えるこ" That's certainly not how it looked on my screen when I typed it in. It should be "taishoukin ga moraeru koto" I'm kind of puzzled as to how that "I" got in there as well. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Thanks to you and Cue-san for clearing that up. :emoji_bow:

Elizabeth · 6 Jan 2007

Fuumei said:
I apologize. I intended on saying that I understood the sentence with that one exception. Thank you for putting in the extra help, it means a lot.
I noticed that the sentence I wrote in hiragana and kanji included this:
"? 烽ｪ貰えるこ" That's certainly not how it looked on my screen when I typed it in. It should be "taishoukin ga moraeru koto" I'm kind of puzzled as to how that "I" got in there as well. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Thanks to you and Cue-san for clearing that up. :emoji_bow:

You did use non-Japanese spacing for the numbers (3, 50), right ? Don't worry, though ! : It isn't a criminal offense exactly, :emoji_blush: but it will lead to mojibake in certain cases...that I'll let others explain in detail. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Glenn · 6 Jan 2007

Fuumei said:
I noticed that the sentence I wrote in hiragana and kanji included this:

"? 烽ｪ貰えるこ" That's certainly not how it looked on my screen when I typed it in. It should be "taishoukin ga moraeru koto" I'm kind of puzzled as to how that "I" got in there as well. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Like Elizabeth said, using half-width western characters can lead to mojibake. The forum inserts a half-width space every fifty half-width characters, so every twenty-five full-width characters. If you have an odd number of half-width characters in a grouping of 25 full-width characters, you will end up with mojibake because one of the full-width characters will have a half-width space inserted in the middle of it. Also see the link in my sig. I think there's a demonstration there, but I'm not sure it goes into much more detail. Anyway, the safest thing to do is just to insert everything in full-width characters if you plan on typing lots of Japanese text.

Fuumei · 6 Jan 2007

Glenn said:
Like Elizabeth said, using half-width western characters can lead to mojibake. The forum inserts a half-width space every fifty half-width characters, so every twenty-five full-width characters. If you have an odd number of half-width characters in a grouping of 25 full-width characters, you will end up with mojibake because one of the full-width characters will have a half-width space inserted in the middle of it. Also see the link in my sig. I think there's a demonstration there, but I'm not sure it goes into much more detail. Anyway, the safest thing to do is just to insert everything in full-width characters if you plan on typing lots of Japanese text.

Ok, I see now what was happening. I'll just stick to pure kanji in that case. I should have been doing that from the very beginning. Thanks.

MikeM · 7 Jan 2007

Hmm... what does this translate to?

ｵﾚｵ食べ過ぎ注意報?

Thanks.

Buntaro · 7 Jan 2007

ｵﾚｵ食べ過ぎ注意報?

--> Umm, is this a warning against eating too many Oreo cookies...?

MikeM · 7 Jan 2007

Buntaro said:
ｵﾚｵ食べ過ぎ注意報?
--> Umm, is this a warning against eating too many Oreo cookies...?

Oh wow. haha. I wonder why it's a question.

Thanks, Buntaro.

Elizabeth · 7 Jan 2007

MikeM said:
hmm... what does this translate to?
ｵﾚｵ食べ過ぎ注意報?
thanks.

And is the danger as severe as a thunderstorm or tsunami ? :emoji_flushed: This is the first time I've ever seen 注意報 that wasn't a meteorological warning.

Niedy · 8 Jan 2007

Hi!
if you want to say that someone splatters water on someone else would you use: 水を頭から引っ掛ける ?

and if something has 2 sides and you want to say, this side - the other side, what words would be good? omote - ura? but i don't know which one is the front, which the back... :?

Thanks!

Elizabeth · 8 Jan 2007

Niedy said:
hi!
if you want to say that someone splatters water on someone else would you use: 水を頭から引っ掛ける ?
and if something has 2 sides and you want to say, this side - the other side, what words would be good? omote - ura? but i don't know which one is the front, which the back... :emoji_thinking:
Thanks! :emoji_wave:

You mean you just want to say this and that (other) side ? こっち（こちら）側、
あっち（あちら）側 ? :

Hmmm, out of curiosity where did this term come from ? I only know a few other descriptions of splatter/spray/splash but 引っ掛ける isn't one of them...:emoji_thinking:

Niedy · 8 Jan 2007

Elizabeth said:
You mean you just want to say this and that (other) side ? こっち（こちら）側、
あっち（あちら）側 ? :
Hmmm, out of curiosity where did this term come from ? I only know a few other descriptions of splatter/spray/splash but 引っ掛ける isn't one of them...:emoji_thinking:

hm... from a dictionary... i searched for mizu wo and left the rest blank... and that came up... so I wanted to check if it is correct... but I would take any expression you could recommend ^^

I don't think こっち（こちら）側、あっち（あちら）側 works for my purpose... but I think I'll just use omote and ura, and just leave it to the listeners imagination which is which :emoji_flushed: thanks anyway ^^

PaulTB · 8 Jan 2007

Niedy said:
i don't think こっち（こちら）側、あっち（あちら）側 works for my purpose... but I think I'll just use omote and ura, and just leave it to the listeners imagination which is which :emoji_flushed: thanks anyway ^^

おもて front / heads
うら back / tails

Can't be more specific without knowing what it is you're talking about.

Elizabeth · 8 Jan 2007

Niedy said:
hm... from a dictionary... i searched for mizu wo and left the rest blank... and that came up... so i wanted to check if it is correct... but i would take any expression you could recommend ^^

他人に水を跳ね飛ばす is my personal favorite, but more like splatter ?. :emoji_sunglasses: but you may want to check back again cause I don't really know all the important differences among them はね散る、はねかける（はねかし？）。。。など Or simply はねる & かける alone ? :

Niedy · 8 Jan 2007

@Elizabeth : I like 水を跳ね飛ばす ... I'll take that... thanks a lot...

@PaulTB : I have 2 pictures... one showing the front the other one the back of something... but I don't know which is which... so I'll just say that there is a front and a back... and than the listeners can try to figure out which one is supposed to be front/back... ^^ thanks for your reply anyway :

Elizabeth · 8 Jan 2007

Niedy said:
@elizabeth: I like 水を跳ね飛ばす ... I'll take that... thanks a lot...

I looked into it a tad bit more and 水を飛ばす appears at least technically on spot for splash water. 水を跳ね飛ばす they may picture someone getting hit by a truck and then sprayed by it. :emoji_blush:

Davey · 10 Jan 2007

I would like to know what 何よりです means? I know 何 means what, and です is, but what does より means?

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