animehunter123 wrote:

What does "追うってこないで！！" mean? Thanks!

Wait, nobody answer this until he explains what it's from.

HonyakuJoshua wrote:

Do you mean 追って? 来ないで is short for 来ないでください, so please don't whatever 追うって来る/追って来るmeans in this context.

Tzadeck - what does your name mean? is there an Anki Tza deck?

Haha.  Tzadeck is an alternative (and probably incorrect) way to romanize Tzedek or Sadiq, which is a hebrew word for righteousness or justice.  (Or, perhaps the romanization is closer to Tzadik, which is a term for someone who is righteous.)  I'm not Jewish, nor do I know any Hebrew, but I thought it was cool when I heard it somewhere when I was 12.  It's a great internet name because it's never taken.  Although, maybe it's hard to prononuce.

Last edited by Tzadeck (2012 June 13, 8:01 pm)

Hey guys, sorry; I didnt mean to insult anyone

Yeah that was from the Ubuntu manga I was reading online. The main character said it in Chapter 8 on: http://seotch.wordpress.com/ubunchu/

I'm having a bit of a hard time parsing this.

「え？あ・・・あはは・・・・その・・・・つい・・素敵な構図だったもので～・・えへへ」
スケッチブックを胸に抱きしめ、照れ臭そうにはにかむメイドさん。

The first line is the main guy's line I think.
The second line is baffling me though, I've guessed it means "The maid held the sketch book to her chest and was shy/bashful (possibly seen negatively by the main character since it's written with　臭い instead of 匂い)."
That にはにかむ bit though has me though. At first I thought it was simply the usual 何々には～ but I've never really seen a 何々にはに. Searches for にかむ give me no words, but かむ could be "biting." Which makes me think that maybe the line could also mean in a literal imagery sense: "The maid held the sketch book to her chest, and gave off the biting 'smell' of shyness/bashfulness." Again, still left with the sense that the guy feels the innocence is an "act" maybe.

Thanks.

Last edited by vix86 (2012 June 15, 11:20 pm)

:facepalm:
はにかむ was the only thing I didn't think to check.

Thanks

Him I'm having problems understanding 打つ. I encountered it in two sentences in a row, and in both it doesn't seem to follow the long list of meanings I found for it on Denshi。
First one (which was second actually)
The context: Someone just wakes up and find something really weird.
A:「寝ぼけて打ったかな？」
from the context it looks like this means "Am I still asleep?" or something like that, but my problem is with 打った
The sentence before this one was
A:「何で今日の日付でもう日記が打たれてるんだ。。。？」
Which would, again according to context, mean something like "Why is today's date already in the diary?", but again I don't see where 打たれてる comes in?

Thanks for the help.

nescio wrote:

Him I'm having problems understanding 打つ. I encountered it in two sentences in a row, and in both it doesn't seem to follow the long list of meanings I found for it on Denshi。
First one (which was second actually)
The context: Someone just wakes up and find something really weird.
A:「寝ぼけて打ったかな？」
from the context it looks like this means "Am I still asleep?" or something like that, but my problem is with 打った
The sentence before this one was
A:「何で今日の日付でもう日記が打たれてるんだ。。。？」
Which would, again according to context, mean something like "Why is today's date already in the diary?", but again I don't see where 打たれてる comes in?

Thanks for the help.

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think I know what's up.
I don't know what meanings you found for 打つ but one meaning is basically to type (inc. on your phone)
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/19 … %E3%81%A4/
③キーをたたいて信号を送る。発信する。また、印字する。「電報を―・つ」「タイプを―・つ」「携帯でメールを―・つ」

何で今日の日付でもう日記が打たれてるんだ。。。？
Why is there already a diary written (lit. typed) under today's date...?
寝ぼけて打ったかな？
Did I write it while I was still half-asleep?

Edit: Beaten to it XD

Last edited by Ash_S (2012 June 18, 8:07 am)

This one is a small story talking about mammoths. Here is the part I am having trouble with:

ふさふさとした長い毛や太くて長い牙、その姿は見上げるように大きく、迫力満点にかかれていることが多いですね。

What's the literal translation of the sentence?

Also
(1) what does とした mean or what does it mean here?
(2) what is 迫力満点 mean here?
(3) what is 見上げるように?
(4) what verb is かかれて?

Last edited by turvy (2012 June 19, 7:07 am)

I think you're missing a word -- in that space between ふさふさとした長い。。。や太くて長い牙.

(1) one of the meanings of とする　is "to feel like" or "to look like". (That's と + する, not its own verb). とした is the past tense of that, and it's often used to turn an onomatopoeia/sound symbolism word like ふさふさ into something like an adjective. "Tufty, long, thick fur." (if you are indeed missing the word "fur" over here.)

(2+4) I think かかれて　is from かく, draw/write/describe/depict. 迫力満点　is in edict as "full impact, packing a punch," so, "They're often depicted in a way that packs a punch [with their thick tufty fur, long thick tusks, and a form so big you have to look up to them.]"

(3) 見上げるように大きい This is a usage of ように that's similar to ほど, I think -- so big that you have to look up to see them.

大きく is the written form of 大きくて, similar to something like 書き instead of 書いて.

Xのように[adjective Y] is a fairly common construction, meaning that the quality Y is present in X way/manner, or to the extent that X, or something like that.  I guess it is like ほど but perhaps more metaphorical?  I don't know.

Last edited by yudantaiteki (2012 June 19, 7:12 am)

大きく　is connected to　かかれている. "They're depicted bigly," if you want to get super-literal. (大きい has to turn into an adverb to modify the verb.)

ふさふさとした長い毛や太くて長い牙、その姿は見上げるように大きく、迫力満点にかかれていることが多いですね。

Their appearance -- with long, thick, tufty fur and long thick tusks, so big that you have to look up to see them -- has often been depicted in a way that's full of impact.

That's about the best I can do for a literal translation, but it doesn't really convey the connection between 大きく　and かかれている.

Quick question. How is the decimal point read in Japanese? E.g.

東京都心でも午前１１時過ぎに３０・２度となり、今年初の真夏日となった。

Source: 読売新聞。