View Single Post
(#5 (permalink))
Old
Paul11 (Offline)
JF Old Timer
 
Posts: 546
Join Date: May 2008
06-02-2008, 04:24 AM

Dude,
Hard to translate without context. It's an implicit rather than explicit (i.e. English) language; nuance and context is everything. One of the Japanese speakers could provide an adequate literal translation and another could offer a very different translation. and yet, funny enough, both might not make sense for your intended message.
Japanese grammer is simple. It's the nuance and psychology that presents difficulties.
Not chastising, just offering a bit of info. I'm looking at these and thinking, wow, I could say each of these in a variety of ways, yet it seems that the context is very formal (and possibly archaic?). Need a dictionary for that.
Reply With Quote