Sentence interpretation

Glenn · 9 Jan 2007

If you wouldn't mind, would the native Japanese speakers give their interpretation of these sentences, please? If anyone else wants to, though, I don't mind. In fact, it would be interesting to compare. This is how they were found, no extra context given. This is basically a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, just so you know. どうぞよろしくお願いします。

「辞めようか。」妻と子供のことを考える。 .....
妻に話すと、簡単に同意してくれた。

PaulTB · 9 Jan 2007

Glenn said:
If you wouldn't mind, would the native Japanese speakers give their interpretation of these sentences, please? If anyone else wants to, though, I don't mind. In fact, it would be interesting to compare. This is how they were found, no extra context given. This is basically a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, just so you know. どうぞよろしくお願いします。

「辞めようか。」妻と子供のことを考える。 .....
妻に話すと、簡単に同意してくれた。

Er, where's the blank? And sure there was a 。right after 考える ? I would have expected something more like ...

「辞めようか」、妻と子供のことを考えると。
妻に話すと、簡単に同意してくれた。

"Should I retire?," thinking about my wife and children.
When I talked to my wife I readily got her agreement.

Glenn · 9 Jan 2007

The blanks were just the left out subjects and whatnot. I just copied and pasted the sentences as is.

PaulTB · 9 Jan 2007

Glenn said:
The blanks were just the left out subjects and whatnot. I just copied and pasted the sentences as is.

Hmm, in which case I'd change it ever so slightly to ...

Thinking about my wife and children, "Should I retire?"
When I talked to my wife I readily got her agreement.

epigene · 9 Jan 2007

I don't really understand what you want, but I'll just give it a try.

「辞めようか。」妻と子供のことを考える。 .....
"Should I quit [my job]?" The thought of my wife and children crossed my mind.

妻に話すと、簡単に同意してくれた。
My interpretation of this one is basically the same as Pooru-san's.

HTH!

Glenn · 10 Jan 2007

That's basically what I wanted. Thanks.

Sentence interpretation

Glenn

一切皆苦

PaulTB

Manga Psychic

Glenn

一切皆苦

PaulTB

Manga Psychic

epigene

相変わらず不束者です

Glenn

一切皆苦

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