Re: "What's the Matter?" Idiom? Was Re: Megami July

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:16:59 GMT

"Abraham Evangelista (afedaken)" <spammaps2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e994e0p8k2nfu3b0dnf3em8jbcd9o7il8h@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:32:46 -0400, The Wanderer
> <inverseparadox@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >Abraham Evangelista (afedaken) wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:13:56 -0400, The Wanderer
> >> <inverseparadox@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> D'oh! Koi Kaze. Koihime's an 18+ title (and a good one; shame
> >>>> it got released by NuTechthemoneyandrun Digital).
> >>>
> >>>> The right/first column says "Onii-chan...", but what's the rest?
> >>>
> >>> Well, after a couple of false leads, apparently that first
> >>> character is the one which is usually read "nani". That gives, as
> >>> best as my limited grammar (and poor memory for past examples) can
> >>> divide it, "Nani*** iru ka na..."; what that means is,
> >>> unfortunately, beyond me.
> >>
> >> With my limited japanese, that parses as an contemplative "What are
> >> you doing?"

Context is really needed here and haven't seen the beginning of this thread.
This could mean, "I wonder what [you/he/she] is/are doing." or "What do you
think you are doing?" (though not quite as accusative as the English
sounds.)

Jeff