Japanese Help Questions/Translations

[tipsygypsy]

アラバマ　アバラ　バラバラ　自腹　払い　いばら　ざ らざら　ピザーラ　Alah

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by Chess

Oh yes, thank you for correcting me. I have my sample regarding my assignment:

The Fireworks Festival was usually being held during summer, the celebrations are held for over a month and peak periods are weekends. The fireworks festival is usually done in the past as a form of ceremony to bid good harvest.

The assignment is kinda long, and I'm having difficulties because I lack the knowledge regarding verbs. T-T

Post what you've got. Including your translation attempt. That's the only way you have a hope of getting help on such a thing here.

[delacroix01]

There are some words I don't understand in the manga chapter I'm reading, so I I hope someone can help me again. Here's the whole context :
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/187/yamikin1138.jpg
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6761/yamikin1139.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4350/yamikin1140.jpg

1. Just to be sure, ありきたりの反応する means "to react in a typical way", correct?
2. What does 目指す mean in this case? It doesn't seem to mean "to aim at sth" here.
3. This is just my assumption, but does 言葉通じる mean "to understand what one says"? Or does it mean something different?
4. What do かます and カチーンと mean in this context?
5. Finally, is the "YO" in the pictures just the emphasized version of the particle よ, or is it another word?

[masaegu]

Originally Posted by delacroix01

There are some words I don't understand in the manga chapter I'm reading, so I I hope someone can help me again. Here's the whole context :
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/187/yamikin1138.jpg
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6761/yamikin1139.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4350/yamikin1140.jpg

1. Just to be sure, ありきたりの反応する means "to react in a typical way", correct?
2. What does 目指す mean in this case? It doesn't seem to mean "to aim at sth" here.
3. This is just my assumption, but does 言葉通じる mean "to understand what one says"? Or does it mean something different?
4. What do かます and カチーンと mean in this context?
5. Finally, is the "YO" in the pictures just the emphasized version of the particle よ, or is it another word?

1. Sort of but to be anal, more like "ordinary" or "conventional" than "typical".

2. It means "to aim to become ~~".

3. Yeah. In this context, it's more like "Do you speak Japanese (or a human language)?"

4. 「かます」 is a slang word meaning "to perform (an action)"　
「カチ（ー）ン」 is an onomatopoeia for "to get offended or indignant".

5, It's a Hip-Hopper's "Yo" used to replace the sentence-ending particle よ.

[delacroix01]

Thanks for the explanation as always, masaegu

[StonerPenguin]

Originally Posted by masaegu

That use of とか is completely natural.

You might want to change the period at the end of the longest sentence to 「・・・」 because you are clearly leaving something unsaid. (That something = the fact that you have not heard from Mao.)

Y'know, I saw tipsygypsy's post but somehow missed yours! Sorry. Good to know that use of とか was natural cuz I had already sent the message when I read your post. And I wish I had used 「・・・」 but it's okay I hope I get a response soon Thanks for all your help.

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by StonerPenguin

Y'know, I saw tipsygypsy's post but somehow missed yours! Sorry. Good to know that use of とか was natural cuz I had already sent the message when I read your post. And I wish I had used 「・・・」 but it's okay I hope I get a response soon Thanks for all your help.

How do you even type the なかぐる or just the triple non-maru periods? I always switch to English mode just to type ... at the end of some sentences since I've never figured out how not to end up with 。。。 in Japanese.

[StonerPenguin]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

How do you even type the なかぐる or just the triple non-maru periods? I always switch to English mode just to type ... at the end of some sentences since I've never figured out how not to end up with 。。。 in Japanese.

In Japanese IME type "///" and you'll get ・・・ Check it out~

[LaiJH]

what does 記憶の秘密 means?

[tipsygypsy]

Originally Posted by LaiJH

what does 記憶の秘密 means?

secret of memory