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Yes, it is. And the point of the use of 勝手に is using another person's PC without asking for permission.
多くの場合、「勝手に」は「許可なく」と言い換えることができます。
 
こんな所でなにしてるんだ？

I am getting hung up on "してるんだ". I'm thinking "してる" is a form of 為る (to do), "ん" is short for の and makes it a question, and "だ" is the copula for some reason.
 
What are you doing in a place like that ??? してる simply being an informal contraction/equivilant of している.
 
人 just means "person" of course, but it can have an implication of "other people". Like I have read a mother saying in response to a kid complaining that other families all do something or have something: "hito wa hito, uchi wa uchi" - "other people do things their way, we do things our way". Also you will often see ひと used as furigana in manga for other words - where the character is saying "hito no ..." meaning "someone else's ..." but the kanji below the furigana gives a little more explanation of who exactly they mean by "someone else".

こんな所でなにしてるんだ？
ん is short for の which nominalizes the phrase in front of it (i.e. puts the phrase into a "package" to be "worked on" by some other grammatical element). の + だ is asking for an explanation, or giving an explanation.

EDIT:
Oh yeah, I got that the rude translation was a joke, but I didn't want the original poster to not notice that and say it to his roommate.

Someone asked "Angels of Judgement". Should also leave that to the native speakers I guess, but how about:

審判の天使
shinpan no tenshi

Notes:
- Shinpan is the word for "judgement" when referring to the final day of judgement in the Bible, but it is also a word for refereeing and other kinds of ordinary judging so I'm not sure if it would get the meaning across 100% of the time. Another possibility might be 断罪 (danzai) meaning to convict someone of a crime or to behead someone. That has an archaic Chinese feeling to me, literally being made up of "judge/determine" + "crime". 審判 (shinpan) is more like "to look in to something and make a decision".
- Tenshi isn't plural because it's hard to make things obviously plural and still sound dramatic enough. But in Japanese you don't really have to make it obviously plural.
 
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Scrivener said:
人 just means "person" of course, but it can have an implication of "other people".
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If you want a nice poor taste example of which - the use of '人妻'
 
Something different!

I play a Japanese board game called Gomoku Narabe. When you get three stones in a row, you say "san". However, when you get a split-three or split-san, what should you say? I seem to remember the word "tobisan." Is that the correct word?
 
Buntaro said:
I play a Japanese board game called Gomoku Narabe. When you get three stones in a row, you say "san". However, when you get a split-three or split-san, what should you say? I seem to remember the word "tobisan." Is that the correct word?
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No idea, but it sounds very plausible.
 

YES.

http://iroha.poloa.net/ref/02_04.htm
 
Wow! A Gomoku Narabe web page! Who'd a thunk it?!
 
今週、金曜日まで待って、それでも返事がこない場合は
先日のメ－ルの返事をまだもらってない旨を伝えればいいです。

Is this saying even if the reply doesn't come by Friday.....???
 
It's not "Even if the reply doesn't by friday" it's "If I even wait till Friday and the reply hasn't come"

It's the second half that confuses me ... (checks WWWJDIC) Hmm, it appears 旨 is used in ways I was not previously aware of.

彼女から結婚できませんという旨の手紙が届いた。
I received a letter from her to the effect that she couldn't accept my marriage proposal.
複数の呼吸器疾患による衰弱のため、彼は先週、音楽指揮者としての仕事を断念する旨の発表を余儀なくされたばかりでした。
Weakness brought on by a number of respiratory ailments had forced him just last week to announce that he was giving up his conducting career.
養鶏業は遅かれ早かれ破産するだろうという旨の手紙を彼は私によこした。
He sent me a letter to the effect that his poultry farm would go bankrupt sooner or later.

So in this case ...

今週、金曜日まで待って、それでも返事がこない場合は
先日のメ－ルの返事をまだもらってない旨を伝えればいいです。

This week, if [you] wait till Friday and even so have not received a reply then it's OK to say [/send an email] to the effect that you have not got an answer back.
 
PaulTB said:
It's not "Even if the reply doesn't by friday" it's "If I even wait till Friday and the reply hasn't come"
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'Even if the reply doesn't come by Friday....' was unexcusably sloppy. :sorry: If there was no expectation it should come by then of course a second part to the sentence wouldn't have been of much use on my end. .
 
先日のメ－ルの返事をまだもらってない 旨を 伝えれば いいです。
旨 is kind of like a "quote mark". It marks everything in front of it as the "contents" of the message that you are going to communicate if the reply still hasn't come by Friday.
"It's OK just to let us know that you haven't received a reply to your previous email yet"
 
I have a little request, I have a part of a song that i wish you could translate , it's in romaji:

Mayonaka ni futo megazameru to itai hodo no seijaku
itsu no manika kanojo no koe mo tozasare
fushigi na mahou ni miserareta boku wa kodomo no you ni
kanojo wa mou *rajio* totomoni nemuri ni tsuita

*means it's written in katakana*
Please all help will be very apreciated !!! thnx. in advance
 
伝えればいいです is as simple as 'It's OK' or 'You may,' not 'You should' or 'You ought' ?
 
Elizabeth said:
伝えればいいです is as simple as 'It's OK' or 'You may,' not 'You should' or 'You ought' ?
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+ 'let us know'
And yes, I think so, in context.
 
verb+ba+ii isn't really "you have to...", it's more like "it's enough to just..." or "if you (just) do this it is OK". Sometimes if people are mad at being asked to do something they might say something like "surya ii darou, surya!" which is literally "if I do it its OK isn't it, if I do it", but is more like "alright, stop badgering me, I'm going to do it, that's enough for you isn't it, shut up!"

There is a sense in which there is an element of "you have to" - they are saying "all you have to do is...", which implies that while you do have to make the contact, you don't have to do anything more, like ask again for a reply, keep waiting, etc. etc.

kamuizero said:
Mayonaka ni futo megazameru to itai hodo no seijaku
itsu no manika kanojo no koe mo tozasare
fushigi na mahou ni miserareta boku wa kodomo no you ni
kanojo wa mou *rajio* totomoni nemuri ni tsuita
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Erm something like...

Suddenly waking in the middle of the night, it's so quiet it hurts
I didn't notice when her voice was silenced
Entranced by some strange spell, I'm like a child again
She had already fallen asleep with the radio

Ha ha, I wish I'd had the brains to do a Google search for the kanji BEFORE I translated it, but anyway it's here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040612033622/http://cct2.st.toba-cmt.ac.jp/~8421/newpage20.htm
 
How do u say "It's been a thousand years since I've seen you."
 
You need to give more context if you want to get something appropriate. What's the situation? Who is talking to who? Is it literal or metaphorical? Are they happy to meet after such a long time or is it just neutral?
 
Thanx for the translation, but I thought "miserareta" means "was showed" :S is that right??
 
If you check the kanji you can see it's:

不思議な魔法に魅せられた

I had the same thought as you at first (I didn't check the kanji till I'd finished). However it didn't make any sense in the context, so I thought there must be some meaning of miserareru that I didn't know, and sure enough, there was.
 
Eve said:
How do u say "It窶冱 been a thousand years since I窶况e seen you."
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むっちゃむちゃ ひさしぶりやなあ。前に会うたん，何千年前や？
is possible.
 
Hisashiburi ya naa. Mae ni autan, nan sen nen mae ya?

This is kansai ben and it's pretty informal.
 
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