Re: group of questions

On 3/27/06 9:48 AM, in article e098i0$bl3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"dareka" <dareka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


10. finally, if something `runs out` can i just say naku naru? i
realize this question is lacking in context, but in general is this
strange sounding? at work, i wanted to say That the paper in the
printer had run out, so i used nakunaru, but i was seemingly laughed at
for the comment, heh. maybe it was the accent, or the rest of the
sentence or something, but is nakunaru ok in this sense? kami ga naku
natta= odd?

No, it's OK.

A little theorizing on why he may have been laughed at. At lot of my
Japanese friends and associates seem to have a particular sense of the
absurd. The look on someone's face when he realized that the printer he'd
been printing to was out of paper may be enough to elicit laughter. I've
seen people collapse in laughter at a mere へっ？ when it is accompanied by
a dumbfounded expression.

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