Quick question about accent marks in 大辞林

When two accent marks are given for one word does that mean the accent is disputed and both are correct?

For example -

価格　かかく　(0)(1) - Definition.....

So the accent is either 0 or 1. Whatever one you want?

I just read a post with it in, and I'm pretty sure it means to make up reasons for why something happens.

blagoonga123 wrote:

Thanks! That makes sense in the context I'm looking at

I wonder why it's not in dictionaries

Because it's not a real word.

oh...... ARGHHHHHH i usually catch when it copies the wrong kanji but this time i didn't.
Oh well at least now I'll be ..much.. more careful about it.

Betadel wrote:

Can anyone tell me what えんかんのことわり　(円環の断り?) means?

http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%86%86%E7%92% … E%E7%90%86

Thank you, that helped.

I think it's just alternates in standard pronunciation.

Neither. It's かねない. Your translation's correct though (you mean "hung up" as in criticized, I assume).

blagoonga123 wrote:

I have another question about a word i've been seeing pretty often

So the characters are bowling, then it says,

くるっと鮮やかに片足タ-ンを決めてみせた

Which i think is "くるっと skilfully decided her turn on one leg"

What does くるっと mean in this context?

The sentence means something along the line of "She pulled off a beautiful heel turn in one smooth move." No one decided anything, and I don't know what kind of translation くるっと normally gets in your dictionary either. It's one of those words that describes motions and the like. くるっと is there to emphasize how her turn was quick and smooth without any pause.

Last edited by magamo (2012 April 06, 2:20 am)

blagoonga123 wrote:

Oh I see...
Man japanese is hard
Still thanks

Ah, if you got confused by the heel turn part, I'm not familiar with dance terminology in English or Japanese so I just threw in the word that poped up on my mind first without thinking too much about it. "To spin on one leg" would be a nice translation since we have no context at all.

To be complete, 決める here roughly means "to do a trick, technique or something that requires a certain skill," hence the translation "pull off." You might see it translated as "score," "make it" and the like in professional translations too. Here's an example sentence:

Whoa, she landed a freakin' back spinning kick!
おぉ、逆回し蹴り決めやがった！

みせる in your sentence is there to add the sense of kind of showing it like a performance. It often works well in a situation where a person pulls off a trick and says "There!"

Last edited by magamo (2012 April 06, 3:11 am)

横 side. Would that the grammar I am struggling with be this easy.

Thank you pm215 and HonyakuJoshua, it does indeed sound like yoko, although the poor resolution made it look as if the radical was 爿.

The shot is from approx. 0:28 of this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_de … pvgM#t=25s

yeah its yoko