GaijinPunch
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- 25 Nov 2004
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Buntaro said:
And it's only uphill from there!
Buntaro said:I have found the short-syllables vs. long-syllables to be one of THE most difficult things in Japanese.
I say as long as we get stuck with Kabuki, Butoh, Noh and all those Japanese foods in English they should have to credit us with inventing something worthwhile as well.Kamisama said:agh.. i hate katakana english, takes away from the whole nihon scene. well. if anyone knows if the japanese have a their own term for it, i'd also like to know that too.
Woo-hoo! We got shift-JIS back. :emoji_thumbsup:GaijinPunch said:Probably not as exciting as you'd want it, but...
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Who's speaking? The bloke or the woman? (Assuming standard 趣味 ;-)ArdenD said:I want to know how to translate the following into Japanese:
"What is it, my love?"
"My love" would translate directly as "watashi no koibito"? But I know one lover speaking to another this would not be spoken, I'm looking for the closest approximation to native speak that would translate into this...
Hmm, yes - but I see I also made a silly mistake. ^^;epigene said:Hi Paul-san,
Economic news, especially concerning stock prices & securities, use language that is not exactly standard. (Also true in English!)
epigene said:かなり限定的 probably means here that reaction was limited to certain market sectors or investors.
最近ドル先安感が強まっているなかで、 為替相場は米経済指標に対する 反応はかなり限定的である。
Amid recent rise in expectations for the dollar to depreciate, reaction of the foreign exchange market to US economic indicators had been limited to certain sectors.
(あまり自信があるわけではないので、please improve my English! Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!)
Yes that does seem to make better grammatical sense now you point it out.epigene said:If you follow the sentence structure faithfully, the subject (consultant) is both presided over and handles questions.
PaulTB said:Who's speaking? The bloke or the woman? (Assuming standard 趣味 ;-)
If it's the woman than 'anata' would probably do for 'my love', depending on circumstance.
I'd probably go for
なんでしょう？あなた。
but then I'm not Japanese ...
Wouldn't it be the case that certain sectors with strong Japanese competition in the states, such as the auto market, would be in favor of a weak dollar against the yen thereby making Japanese imports like Toyota (as well as those assembled here) more expensive.. But at any rate, it has been strongly depreciating recently, and I don't know what the relation would be with foreign markets either....PaulTB said:Hmm, yes - but I see I also made a silly mistake. ^^;
I didn't notice the '先' and I thought 安感 was from something like 安心感
I don't think it needs much improving - although I think that "rise in expectations" would generally be used for good things. "limited to certain sectors" isn't particularly wrong but it's a bit on the long side. Oh, and you probably need an extra 'the' in there somewhere.
"Amid the recently increasing expectation of dollar depreciation reaction of the foreign exchange market to US economic indicators had been of limited scope." (of limited scope might be a bit too vague).
Incidentally, why foreign exchange market particularly? (Probably that's an Economic question not a language one)
I think nobody really wants big changes.Elizabeth said:But at any rate, it has been strongly depreciating recently, and I don't know what the relation would be with foreign markets either....
Thanks a lot! Mind if I nab them for the EDICT examples collection?Scrivener said:I'll just translate this without reading this thread carefully (sorry no time)
Although in this instance "The following are" actually sounds fresher and more authoritative to my mind. But even that aside, when shifting the subject could undermine the original emphasis or context such as countering an assertion that there were few or any unratified treaties Japan was a party to, I personally wouldn't take the liberty. For what it's worth, neither would I change it to 'Japan,' since that's the only country it could be referring to.Scrivener said:No I don't mind. That goes for the future too.
I would say "Our country [or just "Japan"] has not [yet] ratified the following international treaties". It's just "cleaner" to use subject+object in English. Those long chains of qualifiers sound "Japanesey".