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01-11-2009, 03:11 PM

Barring my response, this thread has perfectly demonstrated all the most likely archetypal answers to the request:

1) Get it professionally translated. Gonna cost ya...big!
2) Write it yourself, it's more "you" that way
3) Letter translated as requested, by a native Japanese speaker

Quite the perfect storm thread, I'm thinking...

As for the English text of the letter:

"I don't think O would be able to get by..." - Unless there is some in-joke concerning a person named "O", I think this is "I" typoed, going from the context and the close proximity of O to I on the keyboard

*looks up at Yuri's post* Yeah...O is supposed to be I. It's a mistyped word.

"I am holding up a job now..." - this brings to mind (for me at least) the video of "Ich Will" by Rammstein, where the band are portrayed as bank robbers holding up a bank. I believe it should either be "holding down a job", or even simply "I have a job now".

Just my opinions.


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Last edited by Koir : 01-11-2009 at 03:16 PM.
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