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Originally Posted by masaegu
なんだってんだ here means "What's it to you?", "What are you gonna do about it?", etc.
Not to confuse you more, it is the Kanto colloquial for 何だと言うのだ. Important thing is not to literally translate this phrase.
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Haha, I almost did translate it literally when I saw the 「って」. My brain instantly wanted to attach 'say' to the TL though the context helped keep me from doing so.
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Originally Posted by masaegu
Please don't hesitate to ask questions. You are dealing with colloquial speech, which is very often more difficult to understand than formally written Japanese.
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Ah thanks, I just wanna make sure I've made a solid effort before I ask.
I think I'm getting better at this sort of dialogue, thanks to you. It's odd that it seems all the shounen manga I pick up makes heavy use of Kanto colloquial speech but c'est la vie. It's good practice anyway.
Okay, a line I'm curious about is 「今何つった？」 which I can figure out from the context means something like "What did you just say?" but the 「つった」 part confuses me as I'm not sure which verb it is. I have an inkling it's related to the Kanto colloquial 「～っつの」 ("I'm tellin' ya~") we discussed on page 27, though I may be totally wrong.
Also, I wanna say in informal Japanese "TBH that sounds really embarrassing..." (on another forum there's this guy who supposedly knows Japanese and he wants the users on there to do something kinda lame), I've come up with "私ぶっちゃけ そういうことってマジ恥ずかしそうなんだよ ・・・" I hope I'm not copying the manga I'm reading too much but I don't want it to be too standard Japanese and hence easy to figure out.
I know this is really childish and I'm probably not even gonna say it but I was just curious.
Sorry for my crazy bad Japanese.