dotTristan Wrote:I've been chewing on this one for a while:

「別にどうもしねーよ」

It was in reply to something like「どうしたの」or some such similar way of asking what was going on / if something was going on, I don't remember exactly. I get that it means something like, "Nothing really," or something like that, but I'm wondering about the exact nuance. What does 「どうも」 mean here?

I'm afraid it's really obvious and that I've just been cramming so much technical vocab lately that casual speech no longer makes sense to me, haha. Anyway, よろしく！

Omoishinji Wrote:

dotTristan Wrote:I've been chewing on this one for a while:

「別にどうもしねーよ」

It was in reply to something like「どうしたの」or some such similar way of asking what was going on / if something was going on, I don't remember exactly. I get that it means something like, "Nothing really," or something like that, but I'm wondering about the exact nuance. What does 「どうも」 mean here?

I'm afraid it's really obvious and that I've just been cramming so much technical vocab lately that casual speech no longer makes sense to me, haha. Anyway, よろしく！

It think that どうも just means "Thank you", that is as an abbreviation of どうもありがとう. Thus "Nothing in particular, Thank you for your concern."

Thora Wrote:[oh, too slow]
It think of it as one of those set phrases. Break it down? I suppose it's どう　も　しない.
どう も　with negative is a bit like 何も. 「何かあった?」 　「何もない」、

「別にどうもならない」　－　can't do much about it

kenkyuusha:
｢どうかしたの?｣　｢別に｣
What's up?―Nothing special.
Is anything wrong?―Not particularly.

《不平･苦痛･不幸などを尋ねる場合》
「どうしたのか」 「どうもしない」
What's the matter with you? ーThere's nothing the matter with me.

Magamo Wrote:Notice how I used "……" in the previous example. This is roughly (but not exactly) the same as the English "..." mark as in "*sigh* I think I suck at Japanese..." Unlike in English, you use 6 dots in Japanese. In squared paper, one box has three dots so that そうか…… takes 5 boxes in total (3 for kana and 2 for ……). Each three dot set is called 三点リーダー. When writing vertically, these dots go in the middle of the box while, as you can see from examples in this post, they're kind of at the bottom of a line when written horizontally. Since you're using square paper vertically, you write three dots so that they form a line passing through the center of the box. In your average Japanese input system, you can get it by kanjifying りーだー. Depending on your system, you might be able to get it from "。" or other symbols too. In any case, always use it as a pair so you get 6 dots in two consecutive boxes.

You need the extra space after the pair of three dots too just like you do when you use "！" and the like.

jpkuelho Wrote:冬が寒くって 本当に良かった
君の冷えた左手を
僕の右ポケットに お招きする為の
この上ない程の 理由になるから

I'm in doubt about the last sentence この上ない程の 理由になるから, what does it mean?

Thora Wrote:thanks so much for locating that!

apirx Wrote:(I always imagine they are trying to say Skull Zero : ).

nadiatims Wrote:

apirx Wrote:(I always imagine they are trying to say Skull Zero : ).

It's funny how we can mishear words when we don't know the words. This reminds me of how for a month or so when I first started learning Japanese I was convinced the voiceover at the start of TV shows says ブランドのスポンサーの提供でお送りします。because I didn't know the word ご覧 and ブランド　appeared to make sense. They don't really sound alike but my brain had made up its mind...

Tzadeck Wrote:The one positive example they give is
その病気が広まって１００万人もの人が死ぬなど、想像するだに恐ろしい。

I'm guessing this means something like "Just imagining (things like )the disease spreading and 1,000,000 people dying from it is dreadful." My question is, does the explanation mean that this sentence implies that 1,000,000 people actually have the disease and are actually dying?