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He made the following comment "rather than wasting my time and energy on the Olympics, I would like to make an effort in ending the unspeakable inhumane acts such as the one that's going on in Darfur".

Yeah, it is 思う :emoji_blush:

Thanks undren!
 
warakawa said:
He made the following comment "rather than wasting my time and energy on the Olympics, I would like to make an effort in ending the unspeakable inhumane acts such as the one that's going on in Darfur".
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:emoji_thumbsup::emoji_thumbsup:.............filler.............
 
バシッと = in this context, speaking strongly/harshly.
キツく = きつい (you should be able to find this in any dictionary)
いえない = negative potential form of 言う
Can you have a go at translating it now?
 
Hi,

I am a beginner of Japanese, self-studying for a few months now. I am now trying to read the "azumanga daioh" Manga book in Japanese. I am doing fine - already read through the first 20 pages with the help of the iPhone's "Japanese" dictionary and I mostly understand the text. However, there is a piece on the first 4-panel page that stumps me. In it, Yukari-sensei says:

だめ！ スリーサイズは秘密よ！
でもスタイルよくないから言うのがはずかしいってわけじゃないのよ
こーゆーのもなんだけど結構たいしたものよ？

I think I got the first two sentences - it's something like "my three sizes are a secret, but it's not that I'm embarassed to say because I have a bad figure". However, I'm having trouble with the last sentence - what is こーゆー? It's not her name, as that is Yukari Tanizaki (谷崎 ゆかり). I also can't generally understand the rest of that sentence, and google translate is no help.

Thanks!
Matan
 
こーゆー: a slangy expression of こう言[ゆ]う, which is frequently used in manga
こう言うのもなんだけど: if I do say so myself
結構大したもの: quite really something

I don't recommend manga as a teaching material for pure beginners, though.
 
Toritoribe said:
こーゆー: a slangy expression of こう言[ゆ]う, which is frequently used in manga
こう言うのもなんだけど: if I do say so myself
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Then 自分で is sometimes left out ?

Not an anime nerd either...and I only got one manga in my mind I can think of...:?
 
Elizabeth said:
Then 自分で is sometimes left out ?
Not an anime nerd either...and I only got one manga in my mind I can think of...:?
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Yeah, I translated it along the context of the OP's example. She said こう言うのもなんだけど as the meaning of 自分で言うのもなんだけど.
 

With what you said, I wonder if "can't say it harshly" or "can't be too harsh in saying it" is correct. I think I was a bit lost with how the "と" worked in the sentence.

Thank you!
 

Thanks a lot! Then I assume the question mark at the end is simply asking for conformation, like if it ended with a ねparticle? (something like - the measurements are really quite something, if I do say so myself, eh?)

Why don't you recommend manga? I find the pictures in this manga make it much easier to understand, and the 4-panel comic format is excellent because it makes every story super-short so I get a lot of satisfaction every time I manage to completely understand one
 
matan said:
Thanks a lot! Then I assume the question mark at the end is simply asking for conformation, like if it ended with a ねparticle? (something like - the measurements are really quite something, if I do say so myself, eh?)
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Right.
Because of plenty of colloquial/slangy expressions. As you experienced with こーゆー, it's hard to rephrase them into Standard Japanese or to find them in dictionaries. But you did pretty well for the first two sentences. So I hope your trial goes well!
 
aphile said:
With what you said, I wonder if "can't say it harshly" or "can't be too harsh in saying it" is correct. I think I was a bit lost with how the "と" worked in the sentence.
Thank you!
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Yes, somewhere along that sort of meaning.
A lot of adverbs take と.
e.g. しっかり = firmly or tightly
as an adverb:
しっかりと包む
はっきり = clearly (plainly)
as an adverb:
はっきりと見える
 
I heard a phrase in the Claymore anime, and I couldn't find out what it meant when I looked it up. The scenario was a team killed a monster, and one of the members, who couldn't believe it, said:

Yatta! Yari agatta!

Underneath the subtitles for the translation said: They did it! I can't believe they did it!

I know what "Yatta" means, but I have no clue what "Yari agatta" means. I've been looking it up but have found no literal translation up until now. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
 
"Yariyagatta!" is correct.
That's the perfect/past tense of "yariyagaru(the pre-masu form of the verb "yaru" + the auxiliary verb "yagaru"), and is a rough/rude way of saying "yatta" used by male. In that context, "yariyagatta" expresses the speaker's amazement/admiration, something like "they really did it!".
 
Alright! Awesome, thank you! I knew that I must have been missing something. I was looking for it all over the web for a long time and I couldn't find anything. Thanks a bunch Toritoribe! This Japan Reference forum is extremely helpful. I'll be sure to use it to help me out more when I run into things like this. Thanks again*
 


Thanks a lot! :
 
Hey there, sorry if this is a basic question... but what is: こちらこそ

I looked up the definition and it was something like "It is I who say so", but that doesn't make much sense to me, it just sounds like a literal translation. Can anyone provide a closer approximation in English?

どうも！
 

It basically means, "It is I who should be saying that," or, "Thank YOU." So in English, for example, you could translate it as, "No, thank YOU."

Person A: "Thank you for helping me."
Person B: "No, thank YOU." (Because maybe Person A paid Person B for his services )
 
Very basic, but very useful I think. I had another simple question to ask. It's about the word "mattaku". I've seen references on the dictionary about it, but I don't know exactly when to use it and for what.
 
pedroami said:
Very basic, but very useful I think. I had another simple question to ask. It's about the word "mattaku". I've seen references on the dictionary about it, but I don't know exactly when to use it and for what.
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The most correct answer is "The meaning depends on the context." Where's the point you can't understand, for instance?
 
The most common usage of "mattaku" from my experience is as a sotto voce expletive.
 
Lol! I was forced to look up what a sott voce expletive was and now it makes a lot of sense, here's what I found from wikipedia.

Sotto Voce:

Sotto voce (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsotːo ˈvotʃe], literally "under voice") means to speak under one's breath. In music, a dramatic lowering of the vocal or instrumental tone — not necessarily pianissimo, but with a hushed quality. An example of Sotto voce is in the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor. The singers lower their volume in order to attain the 'hushed' quality desired.

Expletive:

The word expletive comes from the Latin verb explere, meaning "to fill", via expletivus, "filling out". It was introduced into English in the seventeenth century to refer to various kinds of padding—the padding out of a book with peripheral material, the addition of syllables to a line of poetry for metrical purposes, and so forth. Use of expletive for such a meaning is now rare. Rather, expletive is a term in linguistics for a meaningless word filling a syntactic vacancy (syntactic expletives). Outside linguistics, the word is much more commonly used to refer to "bad language". Some linguists use it to refer to meaningless, "filler" use of "bad language" (expletive attributives), distinguishing this from meaningful use.

When it comes to context, from what I've heard the word is said when something bad or undesirable has happened, and someone says it under his/her breath. I guess it makes sense to say its just a word expression for that certain emotion. Kind of like "yare yare" but to a much more serious degree? That's what I'm getting from it~
 

Mattaku can be roughly two different things:

(1) In normal context, usually followed by something (adjective, for example), it usually means "totally" or "at all", to emphasis.

Mattaku mondai nai : not a problem at all

(2) When used on its own, it usually the speaker's feeling, often negative one, such as exasperated, appalled, disgusted, etc. A bit like "ah well!" in English.
 

You drop the eggs on the floor when you're making breakfast. My mom will mutter, "crap." I will probably mutter "mattaku."

You're getting ready to write a check, and the check book is empty. To yourself, you say, "Dammit." Or maybe, "Mattaku."

The phone rings. You look at the ID. It's that business you still owe money to. "Ah, fudge."
"Mattaku."
 
I need help with a translation ^^U

I kind of understood the main concept of what his saying, but he speaks way too fast and I have problems with some words ...
 
Nekomata said:
I need help with a translation ^^U

I kind of understood the main concept of what his saying, but he speaks way too fast and I have problems with some words ...
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What words can't you understand, for instance?
 
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