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I'm wondering how Toritribe would translate "live in the moment"... it was near an hour of discussion at work today.

In English, it's nuance can depend on the situation. One I spoke to felt it was "今を生きる", but that is a translation of "seize the day" or "carpe diem" in Japanese. That phrase has a meaning of taken advantage of opportunity, doing what you can now. The second nuance of live in the moment, live in the now, is to appreciate what is at hand, in front of you. My example was of someone waiting for a subway. One option is to stare at a clock frustrated, another is to enjoy the station, notice detail, people watch. Another would be the absurb human situation where a person thinks about sex at work too much, but during sex thinks about work problems too much. Ideally, you would enjoy and focus on-y what is in front of you. In this case, how would Toritribe translate "live in the moment."
 
I always felt that "live in the moment" and "seize the day" had the same feeling to them if not the exact same meaning. Both are to enjoy life just by opposite means, one is to go forth and bring enjoyment to you while the other is to sit back and enjoy what is here and now. I feel like it's two sides of the same coin.
 
OoTmaster said:
The sentence is an explanation though correct because of "んだ"?
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Yes. That's exactly the explanatory ん.

A dictionary translated "carpe diem" as 今を楽しめ. I think it's a good translation.
 
Toritoribe said:
A dictionary translated "carpe diem" as 今を楽しめ. I think it's a good translation.
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Since writing, I've looked up carpe dium as well, and one explanation is that, to live in the moment. It has the meaning of 機会をつかむ wrapped in it though. In the moment can have just an 'appreciation' meaning, which I think your translation sounds like. The thing I was trying to describe was a sort of zen/Tao state, not of conscious thought.
One of the people I asked in the first place, a native Japanese English teacher specifically said 今を楽しむ (different from 楽しめ, I know) was strange. He felt it meant to describe that moment only, not moments in general.

I think being a non-native speaker, however much I study, this degree of nuance would be impossible to put into words effectively.
 
Yeah, although 今 can mean "moments in general", "now/the current moment" is more common. Actually, my own translation before looking it up in the dictionary was その瞬間を楽しめ, but if it's not conscious thought, what I can think of now is 一瞬一瞬を大切にする.
 
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its supposed to be a name if that helps
 

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己自身へかける究極幻術 Does this sentense make sense as "the ultimate genjutsu meant only on oneself" or "the ultimate genjutsu on oneself"

I see onore and jishin together, I'm thinking discretion to use the genjutsu on others is possible. Here's the context.
術者のダメージや死を含めた不利なものを
夢に描きかえる事ができ

そして術者の攻撃などで
有利となるものは現実にできる
幻と現実の狭間をコントロールできる―
己自身へかける究極幻術
 
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君の分まで彼に愛され愛してあげるから
How does that part work? Does it augment the meaning i.e "completely love him"?
 
The speaker is trying to say that she (i presume the speaker is a female for the lack of the context) is going to "extra" love him (and be "extra" loved by him), where "extra" is the amount of love the person being spoken to is not going to give to him (and get from him). I see two possible contexts here:
1) Two girls are rivals, having a crush on the same guy. So the speaker is giving that phrase to provoke jealousy.
2) The speaker's best friend is dying, so the speaker promises to take care of someone who was dear to his/her best friend. (Not necessarily a romantic interest. It may be a child for example)

The first one is more plausible, since the speaker aspires to be loved by him too.
 
己自身 means "oneself". It doesn't have a nuance of "only".
 

Yep, first one does fit nicely now that I'm reading it again. Thank you.
 
Hi! I was watching the first episode of Code Geass, and then I found myself stuck in this phrase

CCPより各移動

Some military units chase the terrorists' truck, and they (military) communicate with each other like
ターゲットは デルタ12よりデルタ14に入った
時速80キロで移動中
Then they say that line CCPより各移動
フロア5よりフロア3にコード3

What is CCP exactly? How to understand the meaning of 各移動?
I have one English translation. It says 'CCP to all mobile units', but it confuses me even more.
Can someone please help me with this translation?
 
As it's obvious from the context, CCP is the command post. Maybe Control Center of Police or something. 移動 refers to 移動中の部隊. You need to interpret these irregular/uncommon wordings from the context.
This is a minor thing, but it's actually フロア5よりフロア2にコード3発令.
 
hey, i was wondering if you guys could help me out. i came across this phrase: 天地同攸 which i took to mean heaven and earth is the same place. im hoping for the meaning that someone better used to the language would get from reading this and if any more characters would be needed to make the phrase i thought it was. thanks in advance
 

That's Chinese.
 
Mike Cash said:
That's Chinese.
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The onyomi reading of the character 天 is ten which means heaven in Japanese, the reading is of a Chinese character yes but it means something in Japanese does it not?

How would you say that phrase then in kanji?
 
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攸 is a hanzi/Chinese character that is not used in Japanese. That's the reason why that four-character compound word is Chinese. (Incidentally, it means "Heaven and earth are eternal." in Chinese.)
 
Toritoribe said:
攸 is a hanzi/Chinese character that is not used in Japanese. That's the reason why that phrase is Chinese. (Incidentally, it means "Heaven and earth are eternal." in Chinese.)
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Really? Cause in my kanji dictionary it also had a kunyomi reading of ところ

so what would the Japanese way to say it be? Would you just replace that character?
 
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ところ is the reading of 攸 as an auxiliary character (助字) in 漢文, i.e, it's used to read (classical) Chinese text. It means "eternal" in that compound word, as I wrote, since it's a variation of 悠 there. If you want to say "heaven and earth is the same place", 天地同所 can be the one.
 
irai said:
The onyomi reading of the character 天 is ten which means heaven in Japanese, the reading is of a Chinese character yes but it means something in Japanese does it not?
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Are you familiar with 四字熟語 ?

They are treated as a unit and tend to have their origins in Chinese classics. A very very few of them are known and used by the Japanese general public. A great number of them contain only characters which are also in use in Japan and arguably could be said to have been borrowed into Japanese, although many of them are thoroughly impenetrable to understanding based solely on analysis of the component characters (I had to study 600 of the blasted useless things last year) and probably 99.99% of Japanese people you showed them to would identify them as Chinese.

As has already been explained, this 四字熟語 contains kanji not in use in Japan and is thoroughly Chinese. Check google and how many Japanese language pages you see it on; I scrolled through the first bunch of results and saw only Chinese pages.

Getting a tattoo?
 
無造作に、あるいは雑然と置かれたように物がある。「消しゴムや鉛筆が転がっている」
Is this another form of ~ている? Or it is just ''as if''?
 
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It's "as if". I can't understand what you mean by "another form of ~ている", though.
 
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